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Kotlin

Posted on by magi

Why Kotlin?

  • Concise

    Drastically reduce the amount of boilerplate code.

  • Safe

    Avoid entire classes of errors such as null pointer exceptions

  • Interoperable

    Leverage existing libraries for the JVM, Android, and the browser

  • Tool-friendly

    Choose any Java IDE or build from the command line

 

Programming language for

JVM, Android, Browser and native

Kotlin Usage Highlights

Pinterest

Pinterest has successfully introduced Kotlin into their application, used by 150M people every month.

Gradle

Gradle is introducing Kotlinas a language for writing build scripts.

Evernote

Evernote recently integrated Kotlin into their Android client

Uber

Uber team uses Kotlin for building internal tools

Corda

is an open-source distributed ledger platform, supported by major banks, and built entirely in Kotlin.

Coursera

Coursera Android app is partially written in Kotlin

Pivotal

Spring makes use of Kotlin’s language featuresto offer more concise APIs

Atlassian

All new code in the Trello Android app is in Kotlin.