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Use sealed classes and interfaces for robust error handling and state modeling in Kotlin. They allow you to represent fixed hierarchies, ensuring exhaustive type safety and compile-time checks for all possible states and error conditions.

Optimize Kotlin performance by applying @Immutable annotations, DSL builders, and inline or reified functions. These features reduce object allocation overhead and enable compile-time optimizations for more efficient code execution.

Build a type-safe API with Kotlin DSL builders to achieve cleaner configuration and domain-specific language structuring. This pattern leverages Kotlin's language features to create highly readable, strongly-typed configuration blocks.

Use sealed interfaces for state modeling in Kotlin when you need flexible hierarchies or want multiple implementations across different files. Sealed interfaces provide the same exhaustive when-branch checking as sealed classes but with broader extensibility.

This Kotlin guidance focuses on specific idioms and best practices tailored for the AmethystMultiplatform codebase. While the core language patterns are universally applicable, the implementation examples prioritize Amethyst-specific state management and performance contexts.