Intro to Kotlin
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The document provides an introduction to Kotlin, outlining its key features and advantages, including being a statically typed language that targets the JVM and supports both functional and object-oriented programming paradigms. It emphasizes Kotlin's ability to reduce boilerplate code, improve safety by avoiding null pointer exceptions, and maintain interoperability with existing Java frameworks. Resources for further learning and exploration of Kotlin are also included.
Intro to Kotlin
- 1. Intro to Kotlin Prepared by Shady Selim For Kotlin Night event On 1/7/2017
- 2. Speaker Bio • Official Google Speaker • GDG Helwan Founder & Leader. • Mobile & Web Evangelist • Technology savvy • Think tank, Father • UI/UX freak • Leader & Mentor www.linkedin.com/in/shadyselim/ @dr_Shady_Selim 2
- 3. Who created Kotlin? • IntelliJ IDEA • PhpStorm • ReSharper • PyCharm • RubyMine • … others 3
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- 7. Is Kotlin Really new? 7
- 8. Why Should I care!!? • Statically typed programming language targeting the JVM • Support for functional and OO paradigms • Pragmatic, safe, concise, great Java interop • Free and open-source • Drastically reduce the amount of boilerplate code • Lambda expression • Avoid entire classes of errors such as null pointer exceptions • Java 9 is … 8
- 9. The Strengths of Kotlin • Modeling the data of your application concisely and expressively • Creating reusable abstractions using functional programming techniques • Creating expressive domain-specific languages • Java interop ensures that all existing Java frameworks can be used • No rewrite required to start using Kotlin in existing codebase • Existing investment is fully preserved 9
- 10. Do you like reactive programming? 10
- 11. You will not miss your frameworks or libraries 11
- 12. You will not miss your frameworks or libraries 12
- 13. You will not miss your frameworks or libraries 13
- 14. You will not miss your frameworks or libraries 14
- 15. kotlin.link 15
- 16. Resources • https://kotlinlang.org/ • https://m.signalvnoise.com/kotlin-its-the-little-things-8c0f501bc6ea • https://www.jetbrains.com/ • https://www.slideshare.net/intelliyole/kotlin-why-do-you-care • https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxKotlin • https://spring.io/blog/2016/02/15/developing-spring-boot- applications-with-kotlin • https://www.slideshare.net/makingx/spring-kotlin • https://kotlin.link/ 16
- 17. Questions!? 17