Yonatan Karp-Rudin
Yonatan Karp-Rudin

Yonatan Karp-Rudin

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Kotlin Code Smells

In this series, we will see several symptoms and situations that make us doubt the quality of our development. We will present possible solutions. Most are just clues. They are no hard rules.

Articles in this series

Kotlin Code Smell 017 - Pattern Abusers

Mar 11, 20231 min read

Patterns are awesome, but with great powers comes great responsibility. · Problems Over Design Readability Solutions Measure the tradeoff of...

Kotlin Code Smell 017 - Pattern Abusers

Kotlin Code Smell 016 - Instance Type Checking For Polymorphism

Dec 23, 20222 min read

Do you check who are you talking to? · TL;DR: Trust your collaborators. Don't check who they are. Ask them to do it...

Kotlin Code Smell 016 - Instance Type Checking For Polymorphism

Kotlin Code Smell 015 - Helper Classes

Dec 21, 20222 min read

Do you need help? Who are you gonna call? · TL;DR: Helpers don't help. They are a non-cohesive bunch of messy subroutines. Problems Readability The...

Kotlin Code Smell 015 - Helper Classes

Kotlin Code Smells 014 - Anonymous Functions Abusers

Dec 20, 20222 min read

TL;DR: Don't abuse closures and functions. Encapsulate them into objects. Problems Maintainability Testability Code Reuse Implementation...

Kotlin Code Smells 014 - Anonymous Functions Abusers

Kotlin Smell 013 - Companion Object Functions

Dec 18, 20221 min read

Yet another global access coupled with laziness that cannot be mocked. · TL;DR: The companion object functions are globally available, and cannot be...

Kotlin Smell 013 - Companion Object Functions

Kotlin Code Smell 011 - God Objects

Dec 16, 20221 min read

An object that knows or does more than it should. · TL;DR: Don't take too many responsibilities. use the single responsibility...

Kotlin Code Smell 011 - God Objects