Kotlin supports casual functional programming well with immutability, higher-order functions, algebraic data types via sealed classes, and exhaustive pattern matching. The standard library provides rich collection operations like map, filter, and fold. However, Kotlin lacks pure FP features like higher-kinded types, type
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