Absolutely agree. In my experience, languages that have multiple forms of syntax for doing the same thing are just laborious to read. Kotlin has some great ide

Absolutely agree. In my experience, languages that have multiple forms of syntax for doing the same thing are just laborious to read. Kotlin has some great ideas, but it's kind of frustrating to have half my code yellow-highlighted because the IDE has detected that there's a short-hand version of everything.