In Java terms, Kotlin classes are final by default. Default public members and default final classes could be interpreted as subtle encouragement to prefer composition over inheritance.

However, it’s worth noting that many developers using Kotlin for AI still rely heavily on Java libraries due to Kotlin’s Java interoperability. And in the context of AI, Java has many advantages.

Kotlin competes with Java to be a top programming language for mobile applications on Android. The top 3 stay steady.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

Kotlin is a statically-typed, open source programming language. It is designed to be interoperable with Java and provide a cleaner, simpler, and a faster mixture of object-oriented, and functional ...