Detekt is an amazing static analysis tool for Kotlin that easily integrates within your workflows. However, since it needs to be flexible enough to support as many use-cases as possible, it’s not as straightforward to decide how to go about it. Here’s how I choose to configure Detekt for my Kotlin projects.
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Read more... 2024-03-24 3490 words 17 min programmingI very often praise Kotlin for its powerful and flexible type system, and bash on JavaScript for its lack thereof. But I want to show that, while it is personal preference (even if a popular opinion), there are actual merits to having a good type system. While Kotlin and JS are used as examples here, these points can be extrapolated to most languages.
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