Introduction to Kotlin

1. Introduction to Kotlin
by Glend Maatita (@glend_maatita)
CHRO of Refactory

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3. Timeline
2011
First
introduction by
@yole
2012
Open-sourced -
Apache2 License
2016
v1.0 released Official on Android
2017

4. Kotlin for Everything
SOON!

5. Architecture
Kotlin Source (.kt) Kotlin Compiler (kotlinc)

6. Kotlin Java
- Fully interoperate with Java code
- Depends on Java Class Library
- Use any existing library on JVM

7. Kotlin Concise
- Convention over Verbosity
- Less codes -> less bugs
- Easy to read

8. Kotlin Safety & Flexible
- NO MORE NullPointerExceptions
- Use Kotlin with Object Oriented Way or Functional Way

9. Need More?
http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/faq.htm
Source code: https://github.com/glendmaatita/intro-kotlin
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