The Ultimate Beginners Guide to Learn kotlin Programming Step by Step - 2020 (Moaml Mohmmed)（Z-Library）

Author： Moaml Mohmmed

Google promoted Kotlin as a first class language on its Java-based Android platform back in May. Since then, the whole development world has been wondering: what is this language? Kotlin has been around for a few years and has been running on production systems, after the languages 1.0 release in February 2016, for a year or so. The language has received a lot of praise and loving words from the developer community. It is a breath of fresh air, a good upgrade to systems running older versions of Java, and still somehow an old dog in a familiar playing field. What is Kotlin? What does it bring that the JVM doesn't already have? Kotlin vs. Java There are a few approaches we can take when introducing Kotlin. We can discuss it through Java, the language Kotlin needs to be based on due to its JVM runtime, or we can do it through Scala, the language Kotlin is heavily influenced by. There is no doubt that Kotlin is better than Java. It is much safer and more concise. It provides you with a bunch of additions to your standard Java language and enhances a few bits and pieces that Java developers have grown to dislike. Additions include things like null safety, extension functions, data classes, objects, first class functions as well as extensive and expressive lambdas. Kotlin also enhances Java’s type inference and type system and takes massive leaps forward with collections. Kotlin vs. Scala Perhaps, it’s better to compare Kotlin against Scala. This comparison might scare some of you quite a bit because Scala has the reputation of being simultaneously intriguing and frightening. It heavily introduces functional programming paradigm to you while still mixing it into familiar object orientation (hence in an awfully lot of cases creating a mishmash of advanced techniques from both paradigms), brings in some new build tools, and gives your internal flow state a frustrating break every now and then due to long compile times. I come bearing both good news and bad news. Let’s star