Which one should you choose between Kotlin Vs Java, the only officially supported Android app development languages? Here's a comparison.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

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.

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites.

Just the way Swift ensured the death of Objective C language in the past, today, Kotlin is all set to push out Java from the Android app development ecosystem.

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.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

Android developers were already able to use Kotlin through a plug-in, but from now on it'll ship alongside Java and C++ with the official Android IDE.

JetBrains' new JVM language Kotlin promises not only to simplify Java stack-based, server-side development, but also client-side Android development.