sure, but I'm arguing that this is a worse way. Sy...

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[kevinmost]

sure, but I'm arguing that this is a worse way. Syntactic sugar like what Kotlin provides just muddles the things that beginners should be focusing on; basic logic, algorithms, data structures, etc. If you have .filter, .map, .groupBy, etc, all available to you, you don't really understand what's going on underneath. And the lambda syntax is elegant, but the underpinnings of what's going on in a sortBy, for example, should be made obvious to a beginner