It's the small things that make kotlin awesome. Not microscopic things like removing semicolons, but the left-to-right of .as?, .let and friends that allow simp

It's the small things that make kotlin awesome. Not microscopic things like removing semicolons, but the left-to-right of .as?, .let and friends that allow simple things to remain simple instead of littering the code with almost-single-use names. Give those trivial intermediates a name when you think the name will be helpful, not when the syntax is unhappy without. Those aren't astronaut level language features to treat someone's Haskell-envy, but simple things that just happen to add up really well.