Kotlin is a great language for Java developers to expand into. It complements and embellishes what you already can do with Java and offers serious power from within the JVM ecosystem.

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.

However, it’s worth noting that many developers using Kotlin for AI still rely heavily on Java libraries due to Kotlin’s Java interoperability. And in the context of AI, Java has many advantages.

Kotlin was designed by JetBrains developers in July 2011. “Based on my experience, I am pretty sure Kotlin can reach a top 10 position,” said TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen.

JetBrains has provided its development environment IntelliJ IDEA, which is primarily geared towards Java and Kotlin, with the third major release of the year, version 2024.3. Developers will find ...