Self-Referential Generics in Kotlin: When Type...

Kotlin's type system is expressive enough to let you write code that is simultaneously statically typed, runtime validated, and ergonomic at the call site. That combination usually requires some machinery — and understanding why the machinery exists, rather than just how to copy it, is the difference between architecture and cargo-culting. For reference, we will use the RandomPokemon repo. The BaseViewModel in this codebase is a clean example of a pattern where self-referential generics, reified