Explain the difference between...

Inline classes and type aliases are both features in Kotlin that allow you to work with types, but they have some key differences:

Type Aliases

Type aliases provide an alternative name for an existing type. They are useful for shortening long or verbose type names, such as generic types[4][5]:

typealias FileTable<K> = MutableMap<K, MutableList<File>>

Here, FileTable is an alias for MutableMap<K, MutableList<File>>. Type aliases do not introduce a new type - they are equivalent to the underlying type[4].

Inline Classes

Inline classes wrap a single value of an underlying type, similar to a type alias. However, inline classes introduce a truly new type, unlike type aliases[1][2].

Inline classes are "inlined" by the compiler, meaning the class is replaced with its underlying value at compile-time. This avoids the overhead of boxing/unboxing and heap allocations[1].

Inline classes can have additional functionality like extension fu...