Programming Kotlin

Why Should You Choose Kotlin?

Kotlin may be the right choice for your current project, or the next one, for many reasons:

• Kotlin delivers on the “less is more” promise—you write less boilerplate code. The less code you write, the less your team has to maintain, resulting in fewer errors to deal with.

• Kotlin gives you the freedom to mix the imperative and functional styles of programming; you pick what’s best for the problem at hand. Also, you may write it in one way and refactor it later as you desire—make it work, then make it better real soon.

• Kotlin offers lots more compile-time safety when compared to a lot of other statically typed languages. The code you write will fail less and fail fast—during compilation rather than runtime. This is ...