for example here

# getting-started

[Richard Cumberland]

for example here

[Joe]

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/java-interop.html#null-safety-and-platform-types -- basically most java types map to "platform types" where null safety is not guaranteed or enforced

[bjonnh]

in short: T! means "T or T?"

[Richard Cumberland]

ah i see, so it means "possibly null" in a sense?

[zpearce]

yep. "this object is coming from Java, which doesn't have the null safety of kotlin, so we can't tell you if it'll be null or not. Be careful"

[Richard Cumberland]

righto, thanks everyone 🙂