Project Kotlin" is the codename for a statically-typed object-oriented JVM-targeted programming language developed by JetBrains and intended for industrial use.
The main design goals behind this project are
* to create a Java-compatible language,
* that compiles at least as fast as Java,
* make it safer than Java, i.e. statically check for common pitfalls such as null pointer dereference, etc.,
* make it more concise than Java by supporting variable type inference, higher-order functions (closures), extension functions, mixins and first-class delegation, etc;
* and, keeping the useful level of expressiveness (see above), make it way simpler than the most mature competitor – Scala.
In this talk we present the key features of Kotlin and discuss the advantages of the language.
We will focus on type-safety guarantees and classes of errors common in Java that Kotlin eliminates.
Are your GC logs speaking to you
