Acknowledgments

First of all, we’d like to thank Sergey Dmitriev and Max Shafirov for believing in the idea of a new language and deciding to invest JetBrains’ resources. Without them, neither the language nor this book would exist.

We would especially like to acknowledge Andrey Breslav, who is the main person to blame for designing a language that’s a pleasure to write about (and to code in). Andrey, despite having to lead the continuously growing Kotlin team, was able to give us a lot of helpful feedback, which we greatly appreciate. In addition, you can be assured that this book received a stamp of approval from the lead language designer, in the form of the foreword that he kindly agreed to write.

We’re grateful to the team at Manning ...

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