Can someone explain why

Result

was added to the standard lib, when it’s effectively useless outside of Coroutines? https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-result/ A standard

Result<T>

type that we could use as a return value would be incredible useful, and this seems to be a waste of a namespace?

Why is it useless outside of coroutines?

I just really want to use it as a return type

Oh, because of the error? The release notes for 1.3.70 said they lifted restrictions on it, I just assumed that’s what they meant. But yea it doesn’t look like they did.

oh wow this is a big deal. We’re an internal company SDK so I don’t think we should be using experimental APIs like

inline class

yet though

And who knows when inline classes are going to stabilize. I don’t think I’ve seen anything about that for 1.4 😞

inline classes can’t be consumed from Java right though? So using

Result<T>

on a public API that may be called from Java would be a problem?

I think they can, but it boxes them so you don’t get the optimizations. I’m a bit rusty on the details there though.