Programming Kotlin

Reasons to Love Kotlin

Once you dig in, Kotlin feels more like a Swiss Army knife than a cocktail—you can do so much with this language with so little code. The language supports multiple paradigms. It’s statically typed with a healthy dose of strong type inference. It may be compiled to Java bytecode, transpiled to JavaScript, or it may target native binaries using Kotlin/Native. It is highly fluent and elegant, and it’s a charm to work with. Let’s further explore the reasons to adopt Kotlin.

Multi-Paradigm Programming

Kotlin treats us like an adult, it offers choices and lets us pick the approach that’s best suited for the problem at hand. The language has few ceremonies; you’re not required to write everything in classes nor are you required ...