I think Groovy's extension methods are not more clean than Kotlin's. Having to isolate them to an external dependency helps consolidate them, I suppose, but that doesn't change much for readability within usages - you still have to Ctrl+Click or similar to find out where a method originates.
I am not familiar with the concept of static categories, can you explain the difference between that and extension methods? I think we should clear up the terminology. My main focus with this post is removing the step of isolating extension methods to a separate dependency, as this creates numerous problems. One large one I haven't mentioned yet is the inability to test the methods within the same project as they are declared, for example. Anyway there are obviously a number of ways to achieve this. -- Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html
