Kotlin is no-longer new. As of 7 May 2019, Kotlin has been the official “preferred” language for Android development according to Google. It has been available as a built-in feature of Android ...

Although the first official release of Kotlin came only last year, the language has a history that stretches back to 2010. It was created by a Czech company called JetBrains, which makes software ...

Code Runner's new support for Kotlin was announced in a blog post last week on the Microsoft developer site. "In recent Google I/O 2017, Kotlin has been announced as the [actually, just "a"] official ...

Kotlin has also helped Google's Home app developers become more productive as it requires much less code compared to the equivalent of existing Java code. Google point's to the use of data classes ...

You can also write your code in a reactive programming style, using Kotlin’s set of operators on collections. Getting your project coroutine-ready Android Studio 3.0 and higher comes bundled ...

Take advantage of native concurrency in the HTTP server made for Kotlin. Start here, with a basic application showcasing Ktor's HTML DSL, lifecycle methods, and more.

To get started with Kotlin, download the Android Studio 3.0 preview, open one of your existing Java files, and then choose “Convert Java File to Kotlin File” in the Code menu.

Kotlin scripting enables executing Kotlin code as scripts without prior compilation or packaging into executables. While JetBrains will continue to offer generalized support for scripting in ...

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE.That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...

Developer tools maker JetBrains has released version 1.4 of Kotlin, the increasingly popular programming language promoted by Google for Android app development. While it is popular among Android ...