Apache Spark has a Java API, which allows developers to use Kotlin to work with it, but JetBrains is working to add full support for Kotlin class and support for Kotlin in Spark’s shell.

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 ...

Kotlin is a modern alternative to Java that supports functional programming in the JVM. Here's a first look at programming with Kotlin using some of the concepts and syntax you already know from Java.

Kotlin will overtake Java. Based on the data, Realm predicts that Kotlin will overtake Java in December 2018 -- 17 months after Google announced official support at Google I/O. By contrast, it took 14 ...

Java's role. While Java, as well as Kotlin and Scala, can be used for data science, it's more likely to play a role behind the scenes, Ravisankar says. "Java is not built for data science -- most Java ...

Kotlin DataFrame, available as a first public preview, is a new library for processing data from any source, such as CSV, JSON, Excel and Apache Arrow files. The DataFrame works together with Kotlin d ...

Kotlin, a language fully interoperable with Java, is rising in the ranks. Each month, TIOBE Software ranks 100 programming languages by their popularity with the programming community. Jump to: ...

Kotlin for Android development vs Java. Kotlin is similar to Java in many ways and runs on the Java Virtual Machine. It is 100% interoperable with Java, and thus there is no performance loss when ...

Kotlin as a language has a lot of similarities to Java in structure — it’s object oriented and statically typed, and designed for similar problems Java solves. But because it’s a clean slate ...

Google I/O: Kotlin, a popular new language for mobile platforms that's compatible with Java, is now officially supported on Android. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor ...