Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed “pragmatic” ...

Kotlin, a high-performance, statically typed “pragmatic language” that leverages the environment of Java Virtual Machine, has reached its official 1.0 release milestone. Created by IDE makers ...

It’s been just over five years since Google first announced that it would make Kotlin, the statically typed language for the Java Virtual Machine first developed by JetBrains, a first-class language ...

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