"KOTLIN"

    Hello There, Today I am gonna discuss with you about Kotlin programming Language.

If  you don't know more about Kotlin and wanna know then this article is for you to get introduced to Kotlin.

First of all,

          What is Kotlin?

Kotlin was created by JetBrains, a company renowned for creating development tools for professionals.

Kotlin is a programming language developed by Jetbrains. Kotlin is an awesome language. It’s high performant, quick to write in and runs on the JVM.

It runs primarily on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) but also provides the ability to target JavaScript allowing it to be  used for browsers and JavaScript server-side development. 

For the JVM, it compiles to Java bytecode and it’s completely interoperable with Java. This means you can write Kotlin and Java in the same project and they’ll work hand in hand. Intellij (Jetbrains IDE for Java) even allows direct conversion of Java code to Kotlin.

Why it is too much important?

          Here are some reasons why moving to Kotlin is nice thing to do:

1. It is a mature language:

     

 There are hardly any problems when working with Kotlin, everything works as you would expect.

The IDE plugin works smoothly, and already allows many of the features that you love and use in Java. Therefore, working with Kotlin is awesome.

2. It makes Android development much easier:

Kotlin is simplicity mixed with power. You have a new world of possibilities if you're coming from Java.

 It’s seamlessly integrated with Android Studio.

You just need to install a plugin, and in 3.0 the whole process will be seamlessly integrated.

And from there everything works just like if you were working with Java: you can run from the IDE, debug without issues, do refactors, use instant run. Everything you can imagine is still there and can be used.

3. Google’s official language:

In I/O 2017 Google has announced that it will officially support Kotlin on Android as a “first-class” language.

Official Google support will be a huge boost for the nascent language, however, and will presumably make working with Kotlin on Android a lot more natural.

4. Comparison with JAVA:

It’s much safer than Java.

If you are java programmer than you have been tired of NULLPointerException but Kotlin don’t have this type of problem.

Less errors: If there is less code, it’s more difficult for that code to fail, and therefore becomes more stable.

The code is easier to understand when someone else reads it and, again, it’s more difficult to introduce errors.

5. Companies are starting to ask for it on their job offers:

It’s not just that there are companies that already use it, but others are starting to be interested a lot for it.

There are well-known companies that already use it in production.

Example: Basecamp, 100% of the code of this Android App is  written in Kotlin. 

 

6. Easy to learn:

Thanks to the simplicity of the language and the help of the IDE and the compiler, you can handle the basics of the language really fast. andOne of the great advantages of Kotlin is that a Java developer can understand most of the code without ever having written a line of Kotlin.

Conclusion

In my opinion, Kotlin is a friendly language to start with

And it’s now an official language for Android development!

So it will be helpful in too many ways to learn Kotlin.

How to start learning  Kotlin?

Kotlin is so much similar to Java. Hence, if you know Java Then learning Kotlin would be easy for you.

You can directly learn from Official website of Kotlin.

  http://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/android-overview.html

You can learn from books and from video tutorails available online.

Some PDFs to learn Kotlin:

          Kotlin for Android Developers

               Full Kotlin Reference

So, What are you waiting for?  Start learning Kotlin now, Best of Luck!