Have a look at the function declaration near the top of both panes. The return type in Java precedes the prototype, but in Kotlin it succeeds the prototype, demarcated with a colon as in Pascal.

Kotlin already shines building Spring applications, JetBrains said, thanks to features like named and default parameters, which remove the need for the builder pattern and other overload-related ...

For example, exceptions are unchecked, and lambda expressions are supported. In general, Kotlin is readable, relatively simple to pick-up for beginners and in many ways more modern than Java.

It’s no surprise that Google’s hope is that over time, all Android developers will switch over to Kotlin. “There is still quite a bit of Java still happening on Android,” Ward said.

News. Instana Adds Automatic Tracing for Lambda Functions in Java and Go. By John K. Waters; December 10, 2020; Application performance monitoring (APM) and observability solutions provider Instana ...

With tooling support in Visual Studio, Yeoman, and the dotnet CLI, you can easily deploy individual Lambda functions or entire serverless applications written in C# to Lambda and Amazon API Gateway." ...