Any thoughts, best practices around objects vs. top level function declarations for related but independent functions? I'm assuming there's some overhead in creating a static object but is it negligible? The benefit feels like slightly better development experience being able to have auto complete when using the functions.

I don’t imagine there’s any meaningful performance difference between the two - top level variables and functions within Kotlin essentially get compiled into an invisible object, since the JVM itself doesn’t really support top level anything but classes

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compiles to a class with a singleton object instance whereas top-levels compile to static fields and methods, so it's not quite the same

thanks for chiming in

in general, I lean towards top-level functions. the package name itself is already a namespace, and that's what stdlib does too

I think those exceptions illustrate that there's potentially a use case for both