Kotlin can be used for any type of development : from server-side and client-side web to Android and iOS. The language runs on JVM, which enables code sharing between different platforms. Similar to React Native, it offers developers a great perk of reusing existing codes, which saves them a lot of time and energy.
Read moreIs Kotlin used for frontend?
Web frontends in Kotlin are done through Kotlin JS which has had a very rocky start. When development first started with Kotlin JS its stable release was delayed by about a year, which didn’t help matters with ensuring Kotlin was competitive in the Web Browser (for developing web front-ends).
Read moreDoes Google use Java or Kotlin?
First of all, Google made Kotlin a first-class language only for Android . This means two things: Google will give Kotlin as much Android support as they do for Java. Java is not going away; it will continue to be the dominant Android language since Android’s inception.28 Eyl 2018
Read moreIs Google replacing Java with Kotlin?
We have a new member in our programming languages family and it’s none other than Kotlin. In Google I/O ’17, they have finally announced that for android the official first class support will be given to the Kotlin .
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 .
Read moreIs Kotlin used at Google?
Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development . Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in today’s announcement.7 May 2019
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