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Why Kotlin Is an Intelligent Bet As the All-Weather Programming Language
Besides being the first choice for Android development, it has so much more to offer
If you’re a software developer or any kind of professional working in the IT sector, you’ve probably heard of the Kotlin language.
Kotlin language has been gaining a lot of traction and popularity among developers in the industry in the last four years. Among its benefits, its supporters enumerate its conciseness, expressiveness, and simplicity and mainly that it makes their lives easier when writing code compared to other languages. The fact that it has a very flat learning curve for Java developers is also a fact to take into account for some developers and organisations before making the decision of switching to Kotlin.
In this article, we’ll be going through the main characteristics of the Kotlin language. We’ll also talk about its history, briefly, but more importantly about its future!
History
The Kotlin language was first released in 2011 by the company JetBrains; if you don’t know about them, they were first known for being the creators of the popular IntelliJ IDEA, and now they’re also very well-known as the creators of the Kotlin language.
