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Kotlin also has it, I can tell you that it's really useful

Ruby has had this in the same form as "_1" for a while (and the obvious other indexes in the case of multiple params), but I agree Kotlin's "it" reads much better.

Groovy has had “it” for a while. I suspect it predates Kotlin’s usage.

Also matches Groovy

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