This syntax is an interesting part of Kotlin. It says to execute main immediately and provides the runBlocking function (from the kotlinx.coroutines library) as the implementation.

“Studies have shown that Kotlin is much more expressive than Java, i.e., you need to write less lines of code to do the same thing in Kotlin,” Jansen told TechRepublic.

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Providing null safety for Kotlin and Spring apps by improving Kotlin support for null safety across the framework. This will strengthen type safety in Kotlin code.