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.

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In Java terms, Kotlin classes are final by default. Default public members and default final classes could be interpreted as subtle encouragement to prefer composition over inheritance.

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.

In order to maximize the benefits brought by Kotlin in terms of productivity and safety, Meta engineers have been hard at work to translate their 10 million line Android codebase from Java into ...

Introducing the Embabel Agent Framework, a pioneering platform developed by Spring founder Rod Johnson, designed to revolutionize AI applications on the JVM. By integrating structured agent ...

JetBrains has released the new major version 2025.2 of its IntelliJ IDEA development environment, which is specifically designed for Java and Kotlin. It brings updates for the AI tools as well as ...

Software toolmaker JetBrains and the Spring team at VMware have announced a strategic collaboration to enhance support for the Kotlin programming language in Spring-based backend development. The ...