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Hello, everyone! I have a minor aesthetic question regarding the style of creating collections in Kotlin: when I want to create a collection of a specific type (e.g., HashMap) due to performance constraints, what is the preferred way of creation, `hashMapOf&lt;K, V&gt;()` or `HashMap&lt;K, V&gt;()`? Similarly, if I pass a method reference, which is preferred, `::hashMapOf` or `::HashMap`? I know the factory methods are just calling the constructors, and they are symmetrical to the factory method `mutableMapOf` (same for sets and lists), but I know the concrete type I want and I'm not sure if there are any guidelines regarding this.

What I actually want is to pick one of these two methods of creating collections and stick with it across the whole code-base for consistency, I'm just wondering what others do regarding this and if there actually is a guideline.