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Kotlin 101: Type Classes Quickly Explained
Discover type classes in Kotlin: a powerful pattern to organize your code for improved readability, maintainability, and flexibility
It’s a jam-packed course on everything you’ll ever need to work with Kotlin for any platform (Android, native, backend, anything), including less-known techniques and language tricks that will make your dev life easier. Since we don’t want to manage the case the data is not valid through exceptions (see for further details), we’ll introduce the Either type from the Arrow Kt library (if you need an insight on how to use it, please refer to Functional Error Handling in Kotlin: Part 2 - Result and Either): Overall, type classes represent a powerful tool in a developer’s toolkit, offering a flexible and maintainable approach to handling everyday programming tasks such as data validation.
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