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what would be the use case of apply here? (actually curious)

Usually legacy "POJO" classes which require initialization like this:
```
val thing = MyThing().apply {
    setFoo("foo")
    setBar("bar")
}
```

maybe the question is more what’s the benefit of doing that rather than just using the setters
```
val thing = MyThing
thing.foo = "foo"
thing.bar = "bar"
```

like I suppose it’s a bit more concise, you’re not typing `thing.` over and over

That, plus it can be used in a place where you need an expression, e.g. `return`.

i understand in the case of object initialization (it makes builders quite easy for example)

ah the return thing is kind of nice, that’s a good point

I just forgot that double brace init is valid for any object in java (android world here, old java)