Too Long; Didn't Read
I often see developers on <a href="http://slack.kotlinlang.org/">http://slack.kotlinlang.org/</a> wondering which of their code snippets is more performant. Usually, one of the snippets is similar to how things are done in Java while the other is a more Kotlin idiomatic way. Generally, the assumption tends to be that, by adding syntactic sugar, “the Kotlin way” is slower than the more verbose “Java way”. It is not always true.