constants are weird in Kotlin. every language has one or two things that should be simple but are weird. I still love kotlin but still struggle with constants, and how copy/pasting files will drop them in IntelliJ every time because they are top-level and semi-classless
Love how Kotlin builds in helpers to all sorts of random things that Java never got around to doing. The padStart function came in super handy when saving data to a mainframe today and needing to pad zero's in front of the last four of an SSN:
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