All You Need to Know About the REIFIED Keyword In Kotlin

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[ahmadhamwi]

Thank you for explanation and sharing, it helped with the general idea, but I want to correct some of your explanation that may have slipped. The actual type is available at compile time (not run-time), and erased at runtime by the Type Erasure that Java has always had, and since the type is erased in runtime, we don't have the information of the generic type, so we can't do operations like casting to this specific type or accessing its class. In Java they used to pass in the actual class of the generic type in order to access it the class of the generic, but as you explained that Kotlin has the inline and refied keyword which is causing the function body bytecode to be copied at each place its called from.

[voidpointer]

Amazing info, thanks for all these shorts

[ojtoborowei]

I really love this Kotlin short videos

[MirrorsEdgeGamer]

Useful. I no longer have to pass a Class parameter to my functions.

[CJFX_]

Dear god what is this awful programming language