Kotlin is an open-source statically typed programming language that targets the JVM, Android, JavaScript and Native. It’s developed by JetBrains . The project started in 2010 and was open source from very early on. The first official 1.0 release was in February 2016.
Read moreWhy did Google switch to Kotlin?
Have you ever thought how much Google paid to introduce Kotlin into Android? This question usually surprises the developers I talk to about this topic. The answer in most cases is that Google got Kotlin for free because it is released under Apache 2.0 open-source license .
Read moreDoes Google still use Kotlin?
On 7 May 2019, Google announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers .
Read moreWhy is Kotlin Replacing Java?
Java Libraries JVM and other frameworks and provides an easy learning curve the developers who know java can easily learning kotlin switching from java to Kotlin does not have much overhead and adopting and it doesn’t cost anything it is concise which means that it is the drastically reducing the amount of boilerplate …
Read moreWhy did Google switch from Java to Kotlin?
Have you ever thought how much Google paid to introduce Kotlin into Android? This question usually surprises the developers I talk to about this topic. The answer in most cases is that Google got Kotlin for free because it is released under Apache 2.0 open-source license .
Read moreWhy is Google moving to Kotlin?
Google has “a whole bunch of ongoing Kotlin work” for Android, he said, including Jetpack Compose, new Kotlin Extension (KTX) APIs for Jetpack, and is building on work to make the compiler faster that got underway in the latest 1.3. 30 Kotlin release, as well as improving tooling, documentation and code samples .
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