Is there a difference between it and this in kotlin? If so, why do different scoping functions use one but not the other?

this

is always current scope

it

is just a default name of parameter in lambda with only one param. So you can omit name for such case and use

it

instead, but if you set name for lambda parameter explicitly, you don’t have access to

it

anymore. See documentation about lambdas and

it

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/lambdas.html#it-implicit-name-of-a-single-parameter

oh right... that makes sense. Thanks!