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Learn you a Kotlin for all the good it will do you

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Kotlin: A(nother) post-Java JVM language Conservative improvement to Java – consistent, concise, avoids ascii-art APIs Led by JetBrains – good tooling from the outset Open source – but not a huge community Modern-ish type system - type inference, null safe, generics, lambdas, declaration-site variance - but no type classes, higher-kinded types Fast compile times – as good as Java Easy interop with existing Java APIs - maybe too easy? Good for Android - almost no runtime, compiles to Java 6 bytecode Scala

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Apparent strategy to drive adoption

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But with good tool support

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The most popular of its closest competitors

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Some way to go to worry Scala

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Putting that into perspective w.r.t. Java

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More info... Kotlin website https://kotlinlang.org/ Kotlin devlopment blog http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin Slack channel http://kotlinlang.slack.com/ Reddit discussions https://reddit.com/r/kotlin Stack Overflow Q&A use the "kotlin" tag Try Kotlin online http://try.kotlinlang.org/

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Let's translate some Java into Kotlin...