Kotlin: why and how?
summary
Kotlin’s adoption metrics, concrete language features and a working open-source app decide the case: growth on GitHub shows ~1.2M active users and ~4M trying Kotlin, repos double-yearly to ~180k, and >50 contributors already work on the BrainUp project (backend in Kotlin, Postgres, Ember/Angular frontend, mobile in progress) which has daily users. The talk demonstrates null-safety and smart casts, explains coroutines for lightweight concurrency, covers extension functions, data classes, sequences and properties, and shows seamless Java interoperability and automatic conversion in real code.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:42Why choose Kotlin
- 17:50Kotlin features
- 44:13Practical benefits
- 53:47Brain app on Kotlin
- 1:00:00Q&A
