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Introduction to Kotlin : New Official Programming Language for Android

Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language primarily developed by the team of JetBrains that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or uses the LLVM compiler infrastructure. It's a modern programming language. Development lead Andrey Breslav has said that Kotlin is designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a "better language" than Java, but still be fully interoperable with Java code, allowing companies to make a gradual migration from Java to Kotlin. Kotlin can be adopted for both sides of development backend and front end. One of the obvious applications of Kotlin is Android development. Android has announced Kotlin as it's official language in Google I/O 2017. Why I should adopt Kotlin : Although Java is one of the world's most widely used programming languages and is pretty much the official language for Android development, there are many reasons why Java might not always ...