Introduction Kotlin

What is Kotlin?

• Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose, high-level language with type inference.
• It is interoperable with Java.
• It encompasses the following programming paradigms:
  • Multi-paradigm
  • Object-oriented
  • Functional
  • Imperative
  • Block structured
  • Declarative
  • Generic
  • Reflective
  • Concurrent
• As mentioned before , that it is interoperable with Java, thus the JVM version of its standard library depends on the Java Class Library.
• It's development lead Andrey Breslav has said that Kotlin is designed to be industrial strength object-oriented language and a BETTER LANGUAGE than Java, but still full interoperable with Java code.
• Its is sponsored by Google and announced as one of the official language for Android Development in 2017.
• It is pragmatic and comes with tooling like :
  • Code completion
  • Navigation
  • Refactoring
  • Inspections
• It is developed by JetBrains.

Characteristics

• Concise
• Safe
• Interoperable
• Tool-friendly
• Feature-rich

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