Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its ...

Java has been very active lately in improving its concurrency model, and some of the improvements are inspired by Kotlin’s coroutines. Coroutines give you a different kind of access to threading.

TIOBE Index News (September 2023): Java Competitor Kotlin Returns to the Top 20 Your email has been sent This month, the programming language Kotlin reached the top 20 on the TIOBE Programming ...

Java is losing developer mindshare, and fast. The percentage of Android applications built using Java decreased by 6.1 percent, and dropped from 50.7 percent to 46.2 percent of overall apps in the ...

Java may still be the first programming language that springs to mind when you think about Android, but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s ...

There wasn’t much movement in the top 10 this month, with the only change being that PHP and Visual Basic swapped places. Kotlin, a language fully interoperable with Java, is rising in the ranks.

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

GraalVM Will Change Java Java is also evolving on the platform side, in the form of the GraalVM polyglot virtual machine, which improves performance for many JVM-based languages and offers native ...

Oracle's Java 15: New features aim to keep millions away from languages like Rust, Kotlin Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer Sept. 16, 2020 at 5:48 a.m. PT ...