Kotlin just got a masive update!

Manpreet Singh
3 min readNov 17, 2021

Welcome back! Kotlin is an awesome programming language with a ton of capability, if you’re new to this language, check out the link below to learn more:

Well, a new version of Kotlin, Kotlin v1.6, actually ended up coming out! So, let’s take a look at some of the big improvements with this new version of Kotlin, you can check out their entire release log below:

Let’s go over some of the major highlights of this language!

When Feature

This new version of Kotlin brings the sealed when feature, this will warn you if your when statements aren’t working. To add to this, the Kotlin team mentions that version 1.7 of Kotlin will make this an actual error message:

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Manpreet Singh
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