title: How to initialize List<T> in Kotlin?
body: <p>I see Kotlin has a <a href="https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin.collections/-list/index.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>List&lt;out E&gt;</code></a> collection and I was wondering about different ways to initialize one. In Java, I could write:</p>
  
  <pre><code>List&lt;String&gt; geeks = Arrays.asList("Fowler", "Beck", "Evans");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How can I achieve the same in Kotlin?</p>