This piece of code does not compile:

val byteVal:Byte = 0
val isZero = byteVal == 0

You have to change it to this to make it compile (and run):

val byteVal:Byte = 0
val isZero = byteVal == 0.toByte()

This seems overly complicated to just compare a byte-value with a literal. Do we really have to call a method (

toByte()

) to do this? Is there a modifier (much like

L

for longs and

f

for floats) to make this simpler and less expensive?

Leave your vote for https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-3936