Appendix A. Using Kotlin
Throughout the book, I have mentioned that software development and code maintenance patterns are not limited to a single language or technology, so the following sections will quickly demonstrate how to introduce these same processes using three popular languages, Kotlin, JavaScript, and Python, and present an alternate deployment option using tools from HashiCorp. To start, we’ll look into Kotlin, a language built on the JVM and growing in popularity as it matures.
Kotlin has the benefit of being built on top of existing technologies in Java, which means that the tools and patterns are fairly mature. We will build a new CI pipeline using Kotlin-specific tools, but the steps will remain mostly the same in our Makefile. ...
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