Kotlin DSLs in the world of Springdom
Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs.
Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to align on core themes, and to make Spring better than the sum of its parts. You see this in every major release: XML namespaces in Spring Framework 2.0. Java Config in 3.0. Conditionals and autoconfiguration when Spring Boot 1.0 first shipped alongside Spring Framework 4.0. Reactive programming with…