Kotlin Context Bridges

Just a quick video this week as we look at how we can bring back to context parameters, some of the convenience of context receivers. We previously migrated from Context Receivers to Context Parameters -    • Down with Context Receivers - Migrating to...   00:00:12 What changed with Context Parameters 00:00:50 We can always introduce a new receiver with with 00:01:38 Introducing a Context Bridge 00:03:11 Bridges are brought into scope explicitly 00:04:29 Come on JetBrains, let us remove the underscore! 00:04:46 Are they too much faff? 00:05:06 Next week There is a playlist of TDD Gilded Rose episodes -    • Test Driven Gilded Rose in Kotlin   I get lots of questions about the test progress bar. It was written by the inimitable @dmitrykandalov. To use it install his Liveplugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/...) and then this gist https://gist.github.com/dmcg/1f56ac39... If you like this video, you’ll probably like my book Java to Kotlin, A Refactoring Guidebook (http://java-to-kotlin.dev). It's about far more than just the syntax differences between the languages - it shows how to upgrade your thinking to a more functional style.