Kotlin has also helped Google's Home app developers become more productive as it requires much less code compared to the equivalent of existing Java code. Google point's to the use of data classes ...

Kotlin modifies some of Java’s rules to introduce more flexibility and improve areas where coding can become bogged down. Whereas Java code tends toward the rigorous and explicit, Kotlin leans ...

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.

Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its ...

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 ...

Moreover, Kotlin adds a lot of nice-to-have features, a much cleaner syntax, ideas from functional programming, and other enhancements over Java. Come to VS Code and have a try!" The Code Runner ...

Kotlin offers very nice features in terms of building GUIs. You have in the code what you used to have in XMLs or somewhere else. There are also lighter APIs in Kotlin vs. Java." It's evident that not ...

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor ...

The appeal of Kotlin among Android developers is straightforward: It's a statically typed language -- similar to Scala, Gosu, Ceylon and Fantom -- which compiles to both JVM byte code and JavaScript.

And on the Visual Studio Code editor side of things, the somewhat more robust Java offerings include the brand-new Java Debugger for Visual Studio Code. In fact, the open source VS Code is obviously ...