`lateinit` was introduced recently as a workaround...

# announcements

[michaelrocks]

lateinit was introduced recently as a workaround for an interop problem with frameworks like Dagger. These fields don’t require initialization but there’re a few limitations. At first you cannot declare a lateinit val. Second, lateinit property will have its backing field with the same access level as the property itself. And third, you cannot have different access levels for a getter and a setter.