Property vs Field

[dalewking]

@Varia

The accessors do not exist in the byteode as the compiler has optimized away completely. At this point, the difference between property and field is simply a matter of terminology: Java has fields, Kotlin has properties (which may have backing fields).

Actually they may or not be. Consider this code which does generate getI and setI methods:

class Foo{
    private var i = 5
    
    fun bar() = this::i.getter
}