Can Kotlin be used for spring boot?

A big announcement was made back in January in the Spring ecosystem: Kotlin support is coming to Spring Framework 5. This means that Spring Boot 2. x will have first-class support for Kotlin . This is of course not unexpected, as the team at Pivotal is known for the acceptance of JVM languages such as Scala and Groovy.

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Is Kotlin a frontend?

When we’re done, the whole app will be written in Kotlin: the backend will use Kotlin/JVM, the frontend will use Kotlin/JS . This has a number of benefits: besides syntax, it also allows us to share our libraries and programming paradigms (such as using coroutines for concurrency), on both frontend and backend.

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