Kotlin, What the hype? - Speaker Deck

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otlin What the hype? Wahib-Ul-Haq

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"One language finally got everything right!"

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Quick Facts Kotlin was unveiled in July 2011 for the first time and open-sourced in 2012 Kotlin is developed by JetBrains, the creators of IntelliJ IDEA Primary development is from a team of JetBrains programmers based in Saint Petersburg, Russia The name comes from Kotlin Island, near St. Petersburg (Hint: Java) Andrey Breslav is known as the Father of Kotlin

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Quick Facts Kotlin is a statically typed programming language that runs on JVM Kotlin is null safe and offers 100% Java interoperability Kotlin could be referred as improvised form of Java Kotlin is an inherently concise language with a functional programming style Kotlin uses aggressive type inference to determine the type of values and expressions for which type has been left unstated

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Kotlin Bytecode Generation

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Why Jetbrains had to do it?

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$$$$ + We can do better than Java

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Why Android Devs are so excited about it?

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Source: https://hype.codes/kotlin-vs-java

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Why Android Devs are so excited about it? At Google I/O 2017, Google announced first-class support for Kotlin on Android Supreme support in Android Studio (IDE we use) Kotlin is opinionated and makes it easier to read to understand what the business domain is Kotlin is feature-rich, modern, powerful and can co-exist with Java code in Android project

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Why Non-Android devs you should care?

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Source: https://kotlinconf.com

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Source: https://kotlinlang.org

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Multi-platform and Code Sharing Source: https://blog.novoda.com

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Kotlin for DSLs ● Configurators ● Software build automation ● Code generation ● Or even your own language :) Source: https://www.jetbrains.com

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I would like to present the design and features of krangl, which is a {K}otlin DSL for data w{rangl}ing. By mimicking well established concepts from pandas and R, it implements a grammar of data manipulation using a modern functional-style API. It allows to filter, transform, aggregate and reshape tabular data. Source: https://kotlinconf.com

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As an example, we will discuss how to compete at kaggle with workflows written in Kotlin.

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Kotlin for Data Scientists Source: https://kotlinconf.com

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Kotlin experience is in demand Massive Community and Learning Resources

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Learning Resources https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/ https://developer.android.com/kotlin/resources https://superkotlin.com/resources-learn-kotlin/

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Thank you! Any questions? @wahibhaq