The Kotlin Programming Language (Interview)

Dmitry Jemerov joined the show to talk about Kotlin - a language created by JetBrains that’s designed to be an industrial-strength object-oriented language, and a “better language” than Java. We asked Dmitry “Why invent a new language?”, talked through Google announcing official Android support, covered some of Kotlin’s characteristics, Kotlin vs Swift, and more.

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Featuring:

• Dmitry Jemerov – Website, GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Kotlin Programming Language
• Kotlin Community
• KotlinConf
• JetBrains Gogland - Up and Coming Go IDE
• On the Rise of Kotlin

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