Document KotlinTemplate alongside JavaTemplate#521
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## KotlinTemplatesection to the JavaTemplate concept page documenting the Kotlin sibling ofJavaTemplate. BecauseKotlinTemplate extends JavaTemplate, the section is a focused "delta": it links back to the shared concepts and only covers what changes — Kotlin snippet syntax, Kotlin-style imports, the staticapply/matchesshortcuts, and the current lack of a publiccontextSensitive/custom-parser builder. It also adds guidance for recipes that transform both Java and Kotlin, showing the two real dispatch patterns (branching onK.CompilationUnitin one visitor, and splitting into per-language visitors) grounded in therewrite-kotlinandrewrite-testing-frameworksrecipes.