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My question geared towards whether things like `fun Context.color(@ColorInt color: Int) = ContextCompat.getColor(this, color)`, came at a cost of a method count. I made a library similar to ktx back when I first started with Kotlin, and I had always thought that it would come at no cost to a developer because inlined functions were fully inlined. I guess if proguard strips away the unused methods that works too, but now I’m more conscientious about what I add since inline didn’t behave as I originally thought.

It’s not entirely crucial to me, but I think we can all agree that as library creators, we should care about method count. Jake Wharton has also given talks about that. This is a matter of writing helper methods to simplify existing features vs creating helper methods for any conceivably useful feature.

I mean, I'm a library creator and I've never considered method count at all. Why is it important to you? Should I consider it too?