> When I was last at a Java shop, we we're pushing multiple-thousand line PRs every week, a good 40% of those lines were simply boilerplate generated by Intelli

> When I was last at a Java shop, we we're pushing multiple-thousand line PRs every week, a good 40% of those lines were simply boilerplate generated by IntelliJ This actually one of the things I like about Kotlin - many of it features are similar in effect to pre-generated boilerplate - but it lives as part of the run-time, not in your code. On the flip side, a new version of Kotlin could potentially introduce/reveal bugs - but at least you don't have to deal with four different generations of outdated boilerplate when diving into old code...