This shows the strength and conciseness of Kotlin, as a simple Person class (with a name, getter/setter and standard POJO methods) is replaced by the keyword “data”.
To compare Java and Kotlin, one of the examples of the presentation is this Java POJO class and its usage, as seen in the image above. Since then the interest, usage and fanbase grew even more. It can also run on the front-end using JavaScript. Google officially announced at their I/O conference in May that they now support Kotlin for Android development. This way, Java and Kotlin can be used at the same time (interoperability) on JVM’s and Android devices. The open-source programming language compiles to the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), Android and JavaScript. Kotlin was unveiled in 2011 and had its 1.0 stable release in February 2016 and 1.1 in March recently. Kotlin is basically build by the people who experienced the pain of Java. Influenced by the languages Java, C#, Scala and Groovy, Jetbrains put a team on developing a new programming language. They were looking for a new programming language that would be better than Java, but still interoperable for migration. Kotlin is a programming language developed by Jetbrains, a company famous for IntelliJ, WebStorm, PhpStorm and their ReSharper plugin for Visual Studio. Bummed you missed it? No worries! Pieter will explain to you why he has become a big fan of this new language. At the Zebra APPFORUM 2017 Europe conference in Prague, our Android Developer Pieter Otten has inspired others to start using Kotlin. “Kotlin, the New Programming Language That Will Make You Stop Using Java”.
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