Kotlin - What is it? Why should you use it?

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https://github.com/gdg-android-santiago/droidfestival.git Slack: #desarrollo

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Kotlin - What’s it and Why we should use it? Armando Picón

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What is Kotlin? Statically typed programming language Developed by JetBrains Kotlin is an official language on Android

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Kotlin’s milestones 2010 - First commit (November) 2016 - Kotlin 1.0 (February) => JVM Target 2017 - Kotlin 1.1 (March) => JS Target 2017 - Declared an official language on Android (May) 2017 - Kotlin 1.2 (November) => Reusable code between JVM and JS

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“This is largely backed by language evolution concerns: from now on we are committed to backward compatibility, i.e. changes made in the subsequent versions of the language and the standard library won’t break the binaries compiled with the previous versions.” Q&A with Andrey Breslav on the Kotlin 1.0 Release https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/02/kotlin-10-released

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Why we should use it? Kotlin is an official supported language on Android Kotlin is concise, safe, interoperable and tool-friendly The learning curve for using Kotlin is pretty low Kotlin is fun!

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Caveats Team velocity Reversion

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Show me the code!

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https://www.udacity.com/course/kotlin-bootcamp-for-programmers--ud9011

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