Kotlin, What the hype?

This talk was given as part of our regular bi-weekly "KI University" session which is an internal company event. It was meant to help other engineers getting familiar with the idea of "Kotlin" and motivate them to see its potential which goes beyond Android.

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1. otlin What the hype? Wahib-Ul-Haq
5. "One language finally got everything right!"
6. 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
7. 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
8. Kotlin Bytecode Generation
11. Why Jetbrains had to do it?
12. $$$$ + We can do better than Java
13. Why Android Devs are so excited about it?
14. Source: https://hype.codes/kotlin-vs-java
16. 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
17. Why Non-Android devs you should care?
18. Source: https://kotlinconf.com
19. Source: https://kotlinlang.org
20. Multi-platform and Code Sharing Source: https://blog.novoda.com
21. Kotlin for DSLs • Configurators • Software build automation • Code generation • Or even your own language :) Source: https://www.jetbrains.com
22. 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
23. As an example, we will discuss how to compete at kaggle with workflows written in Kotlin.
24. Kotlin for Data Scientists Source: https://kotlinconf.com
25. Kotlin experience is in demand Massive Community and Learning Resources
26. Learning Resources https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/ https://developer.android.com/kotlin/resources https://superkotlin.com/resources-learn-kotlin/
27. Thank you! Any questions? @wahibhaq