Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development ... you can declare a nullable type by appending a question mark to the type, e.g. String?. The protections go a little ...

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.

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 ...