It’s an interesting design difference between requiring a visibility declaration, as Java does, versus assuming public, as Kotlin does. This kind of streamlining makes for a simpler and faster ...

Kotlin supports exceptions in a manner similar to Java with one big difference–Kotlin does not have checked exceptions. While they were well intentioned, Java’s checked exceptions have been ...

Java has been a programming stalwart since its inception in 1995, and remains one of the most popular languages for web applications and big data processing, however, Kotlin, a relatively new kid ...

Kotlin is one of the newer languages on the JVM. It is statically typed and aims to provide a blend of OO and FP programming styles. We present the main features that might appeal to Java developers.

Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language. Meta's switch away ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

Java still holds a large majority, with 86.9% of developers saying they use it as their main programming language for building JVM applications, compared to 5.5% with Kotlin.

Meta has been at work to port their Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. In the process, they have learned a number of lessons of general interest and developed a few useful approaches, explains Meta ...

Kotlin was designed as a language that expressed many Java idioms cleanly, and bundles in a lot of functionality that Java coders have wished they’d had all along. Java is adding Kotlin features as it ...

But that doesn’t worry this polyglot programmer, who has written books on Java, .NET, Scala, Groovy, JavaScript, and now Kotlin: “Java is steadily moving in the direction of low ceremony and ...