As outlined in my article A case for keeping primitives in Java, there is really only one reason for primitive types–performance. Similar to Scala, Kotlin has only one type system, in that there ...

Azul and JetBrains have joined forces with a shared vision: to reexamine how Kotlin-generated bytecode interacts with the Java runtime (known as a Java Virtual Machine or JVM) and uncover new paths to ...

but you don’t have to use Java for Android development. In fact, Kotlin is now Google’s preferred official language for Android! Today, Android Studio ships with Kotlin support built-in ...

scalable systems in industries such as e-commerce, fintech, and enterprise software. So could Kotlin ever feasibly replace the likes of Java? “Partially, yes,” suggests Egor Tolstoy ...

Kotlin was designed as a language that expressed many Java idioms cleanly, and bundles in a lot of functionality that Java coders have wished they’d had all along. Java is adding Kotlin features as it ...

Kotlin continues to grow in popularity among Java developers, a new report from Snyk revealed. In its annual JVM ecosystem report it found that Kotlin is now the second most popular JVM language.

If you're not a mobile developer working with Android, chances are you haven't heard of Kotlin. If you are an Android programmer, it's the best thing since sliced bread. While Java has long been ...

The Colorado-based professor of computer science at the University of Houston points out that a new Java Virtual Machine-based language called Kotlin uses “smart casting,” and that Java will ...

The latest release of Javalin, the lightweight Web framework for Kotlin and Java, is a minor, mostly bug-fix release, but the steady evolution and growing popularity of this open-source project are a ...