IntelliJ and Kotlin
Coding using Vim/nano is not everyone's first choice; working without the help of an IDE with its code completion, intelli-sense, shortcuts for adding files, or refactoring code can prove challenging the more complex the project is.
For a while now, in the JVM world, people's first choice when it comes to their integrated development environment has been IntelliJ. The tool is made by the same company that created Kotlin: JetBrains. Given the integration between the two of them, it would be my first choice of IDE to use, but, as we will see in the next section it is not the only option.
IntelliJ comes in two versions: Ultimate and Community (free). For the code we will be using in the course of this book, the free version is enough. ...
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