As Java has such a huge existing ecosystem it will be hard for a language like Kotlin to suddenly rise and take over in such a short amount of time. It is everywhere as Sun/Oracle always claim.

A new report released earlier this week estimates that Kotlin will surpass Java as the primary programming language used for Android apps by December 2018.

It’s 100 percent interoperable with Java, which until now was Google’s primary language for writing Android apps (besides C++). The company also today said that it will launch a foundation for ...

That makes Kotlin the third language fully supported for Android devlopment, in addition to Java and C++. Google says that Kotlin is “a brilliantly designed, mature language that we believe will ...

Java and Android Studio have a steep learning curve, however. Kotlin – Kotlin is another official Android language. It is similar to Java in many ways but is a little easier to get your head around.

It was only two years ago, at I/O 2017, that Google announced support for Kotlin in its Android Studio IDE.That came as a bit of a surprise, given that Java had long been the preferred language ...

Java is one of the top three programming languages, thanks to its dominance in enterprise applications, while Kotlin is a less popular but still top 20 programming language.Meta's switch away from ...

Kotlin, the Google-endorsed programming language for building Android apps, now has the fastest-growing population of contributors on Microsoft-owned code-hosting repository GitHub. Google made ...

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...