Right since it was announced in Google IO ‘17, Kotlin has been a big hit among developers and many are now switching their development from traditional Java to Kotlin. My aim is that after reading this article you start using Kotlin for your daily tasks or wherever you have been using Java. So let’s start!
(Note we might cover some core Java concepts in this article)
With help from a big community of developers, Kotlin was developed by JetBrains, which is a software tooling company, as an open source project. So if someone asks you, what is Kotlin, you’d say just like Java it is a statically typed language for computational purposes while supporting both functional programming and object-oriented programming paradigms.
Being said that it’s statically typed, you can omit types in Kotlin, making it look concise as some dynamically-typed languages.
Talking not Kotlin and not talking about interoperability won’t be fair. Kotlin is cent percent interoperable with Java, and we will see that later. You must know that Kotlin is not only for JVM or Android development, you can also compile Kotlin code to JavaScript or even to native code. So you can also do server side and frontend development in Kotlin. Community ...
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