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hello… is there a way in Kotlin to detect when an instance of a class has been deallocated?

ischuetz: Same way as in Java, the way to do it would be `finalize`. There are discussions about discussions about why `finalize` is terrible though. You should really use the `Closeable` interface with the `use` function.

There is also `WeakReference` / `SoftReference`, which can notify you through a `ReferenceQueue`, but the use-case is extremely limited. It's not a good idea to rely on the garbage collector in this way.