Officially released in 2016, Kotlin has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, especially since Google announced its support for Kotlin as an alternative to Java on Android platforms.

In Java terms, Kotlin classes are final by default. Default public members and default final classes could be interpreted as subtle encouragement to prefer composition over inheritance.

This post is an introduction to Kotlin for Android development. Learn how the language differs from Java and the basic syntax and layout.

Kotlin competes with Java to be a top programming language for mobile applications on Android. The top 3 stay steady.

The Kotlin vs Java debate is a new one, with each language having their own merits But what exactly makes them stand apart? That's what we aim to explore.

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Kotlin was designed as a language that expressed many Java idioms cleanly, and bundles in a lot ...

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 publishers of the first edition of the Realm Report, released yesterday, found that Android developers are abandoning Java in favor of Kotlin.

Programming languages: Java developers flock to Kotlin and ditch Oracle JDK for OpenJDK New survey reveals the most popular tools used by Java developers.

Developer tools maker JetBrains has released version 1.4 of Kotlin, the increasingly popular programming language promoted by Google for Android app development. While it is popular among Android ...