{"id":6173,"date":"2019-08-09T10:25:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2019-08-09T10:25:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:25:08","slug":"google-chooses-kotlin-over-java","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2019\/google-chooses-kotlin-over-java\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chooses Kotlin Over Java!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The tech giant will still support Java but Kotlin is king for Android development.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A quick snippet to be sure, but Google has announced that when it comes to Android development, going forward it will use Kotlin. There will still be support for Java, “…but in terms of documentation, new libraries and so fourth…they said, ‘that’s it! Kotlin is our beast’.”

Without sounding like a broken record (probably a dated reference…), this does go back to what we were saying about a language that is easy to write in, generally gets more use\/support and ends up winning out over more verbose\/heavy languages. “Kotlin is an easier language to write in, it’s far more productive so…if you are looking for native Android development (and that I think is going to diminish over time…), …then I would lean towards Kotlin.”

The VLOG goes onto mention other casualties in the “simplicity wars” of languages and frameworks, like Apple’s ‘objective C’ being replaced by Swift. It’s worth a look just for the nostalgia factor alone.
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