Kotlin @ StrangeLoop 2011

The Kotlin
Programming Language

Andrey Breslav

Monday, September 19, 2011

What is Kotlin?

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What is Kotlin?
• Statically typed

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose
• programming language

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose
• developed by JetBrains

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose
➡ intended for industrial use

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose

• Docs available today

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What is Kotlin?
• object-oriented
• JVM-targeted
• general-purpose

• Docs available today
• Public beta is planned for the end of 2011

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Goal-wise...

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Goal-wise...
• Number of research papers we are
planning to publish on Kotlin is

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Goal-wise...
➡ Zero

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Goal-wise...
➡ Zero
➡ ... or really close to that

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Outline
• Motivation
• Feature overview
• Basic syntax
• Classes and Types
• Higher-order functions
• Type-safe Groovy-style Builders
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Motivation

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Motivation
• Why a new language?

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Motivation
➡ We are not satisfied with the existing ones
➡ And we have had a close look at many of them over 10 years

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Motivation

• Design goals

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Motivation

• Design goals
➡ Full Java interoperability

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Motivation

• Design goals
➡ Compiles as fast as Java

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Motivation

• Design goals
➡ Safer than Java

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Motivation

• Design goals
➡ Safer than Java
➡ More concise than Java

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Motivation

• Design goals
➡ Safer than Java
➡ More concise than Java
➡ Way simpler than Scala
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Feature overview

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Feature overview
• Language features

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Feature overview
➡ Static null-safety guarantees

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Feature overview
➡ Higher-order functions ("closures")

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Feature overview
➡ Traits & First-class delegation

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Feature overview
➡ Properties (no fields)

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Feature overview
➡ Reified generics

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Feature overview
➡ Declaration-site variance & "Type projections"

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Feature overview
➡ Extension functions

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Feature overview
➡ Modules and Build infrastructure

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Feature overview
➡ Inline-functions (zero-overhead closures)

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Feature overview
➡ Pattern matching

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Feature overview
➡ ...

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Feature overview
➡ ...

• Full-featured IDE by JetBrains from the very beginning

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Code examples
• Functions
• Java interoperability
• String templates
• Local variables
• Type inference
• Extension functions and properties
• Null-safety

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Hello, world!
namespace hello

fun main(args : Array<String>) : Unit {
println("Hello, world!")
}

fun println(message : String) {
System.out?.println(message)
}

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Hello, <names>!
fun main(args : Array<String>) {
var names : String = ""

for (i in args.indices) {
names += args[i]
if (i + 1 < args.size)
names += ", "
}

println("Hello, $names!")
}

val Array<*>.indices : Iterable<Int>
get() = IntRange<Int>(0, size - 1)

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Hello, <names>! (Faster version)
val names = StringBuilder()

for (i in args.indices) {
names += args[i]
if (i + 1 < args.size)
names += ", "
}

println("Hello, $names!")
}

fun StringBuilder.plusAssign(s : String) {
this.append(s)
}

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Hello, <names>! (Realistic version)
println("Hello, ${args.join(", ")}!")
}

fun <T> Iterable<T>.join(separator : String) : String {
forit (this) {
names += it.next()
if (it.hasNext())
names += separator
}
return names.toString()
}

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join() and forit()
fun <T> Iterable<T>.join(separator : String) : String {
forit (this) {
names += it.next()
if (it.hasNext())
names += separator
}
return names.toString()
}

fun <T> forit(col : Iterable<T>, f : fun(Iterator<T>) : Unit) {
val it = col.iterator()
while (it.hasNext()) {
f(it)
}
}

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Null-safety
fun parseInt(s : String) : Int? {
try {
return Integer.parseInt(s)
} catch (e : NumberFormatException) {
return null
}
}

val x = parseInt("123")
val y = parseInt("Hello")
print(x?.times(2)) // Can't say: print(x * 2)

if (x != null) {
print(x * 2)
}
}
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Types
Syntax

Class types List<Foo>

Nullable types Foo?

Function types fun (Int) : String

Tuple types (Double, Double)

Self type This

Special types

Top Any?

Bottom Nothing

No meaningful return value Unit

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Mapping to Java types
Kotlin GEN Java LOAD Kotlin
Any Object Any?
Unit void Unit
Int int Int
Int? Integer Int?
String String String?
Array<Foo> Foo[] Array<Foo?>?
Array<Int> int[] Array<Int>?
Nothing - -
Foo Foo Foo?

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Automatic casts and When
fun foo(obj : Any?) {
if (obj is String) {
obj.get(0)
}
when (obj) {
is String => obj.get(0)
is Int => obj.plus(1)
!is Boolean => null
}
}

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More on when-expressions
fun bar(x : Int) {
when (x) {
0 => "Zero"
1, 2, 3 => "1, 2 or 3"
x + 1 => "Really strange"
in 10..100 => "In range"
!in 100..1000 => "Out of range"
}
}

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Classes
open class Parent(p : Bar) {
open fun foo() {}
fun bar() {}
}

class Child(p : Bar) : Parent(p) {
override fun foo() {}
}

• Any is the default supertype
• Constructors must initialize supertypes
• Final by default, explicit override annotations

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Traits
trait T1 : Class1, OtherTrait {
// No state
}

class Foo(p : Bar) : Class1(p), T1, T2 {
...
}

class Decorator(p : T2) : Class2, T2 by p {
...
}

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Disambiguation
trait A {
fun foo() : Int = 1 // open by default
}

open class B() {
open fun foo() : Int = 2
}

class C() : B(), A {
override fun foo() = super<A>.foo()
}

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First-class functions
• Functions
➡ fun f(p : Int) : String

• Function types
➡ fun (p : Int) : String
➡ fun (Int) : String

• Function literals
➡ {p => p.toString()}
➡ {(p : Int) => p.toString()}
➡ {(p : Int) : String => p.toString()}

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Higher-order functions
fun <T> filter(
c : Iterable<T>,
f : fun(T) : Boolean) : Iterable<T>

• filter(list, {s => s.length < 3})
➡ Sugar: last function literal argument
✦ filter(list) {s => s.length < 3}
➡ Sugar: one-parameter function literal
✦ filter(list) { it.length < 3 }

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Infix function calls: "LINQ"
a.contains(b)

// is the same as

a contains b

users

filter { it hasPrivilege WRITE }

map { it => it.fullName }

orderBy { lastName }

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Lock example (I)
myLock.lock()
try {
// Do something
}
finally {
myLock.unlock()
}

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Lock example (II)

lock(myLock) {
// Do something
}

fun lock(l : Lock, body : fun () : Unit)

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Lock example (III)
inline fun lock(l : Lock, body : fun () : Unit) {
myLock.lock()
try {
body()
}
finally {
myLock.unlock()
}
}

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Extension functions
• Functions
➡ fun Foo.f(p : Int) : String

• Function types
➡ fun Foo.(p : Int) : String
➡ fun Foo.(Int) : String

• Function literals
➡ {Foo.(p : Int) => this.toString()}
➡ {Foo.(p : Int) : String => this.toString()}

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Builders in Groovy
html {
head {
title "XML encoding with Groovy"
}
body {
h1 "XML encoding with Groovy"
p "this format can be used as an alternative markup to XML"

/* an element with attributes and text content */
ahref:'http://groovy.codehaus.org' ["Groovy"]
}
}

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Builders in Kotlin
html {
head {
title { +"XML encoding with Kotlin" }
}
body {
h1 { +"XML encoding with Kotlin" }
p { +"this format is now type-safe" }

a(href="http://jetbrains.com/kotlin") { +"Kotlin" }
}
}

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Builders: Implementation (I)
• Function definition

fun html(init : fun HTML.() : Unit) : HTML {
val html = HTML()
html.init()
return html
}
• Usage

html {
this.head { ... }
}

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Builders: Implementation (II)
• Function definition

fun html(init : fun HTML.() : Unit) : HTML {
val html = HTML()
html.init()
return html
}
• Usage

html {
head { ... }
}

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Builders: Implementation (III)
abstract class Tag(val name : String) : Element {
val children = ArrayList<Element>()
val attributes = HashMap<String, String>()
}

abstract class TagWithText(name : String) : Tag(name) {
fun String.plus() {
children.add(TextElement(this))
}
}

class HTML() : TagWithText("html") {
fun head(init : fun Head.() : Unit) { }
fun body(init : fun Body.() : Unit) { }
}

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Builders in Kotlin
html {
head {
title { +"XML encoding with Kotlin" }
}
body {
h1 { +"XML encoding with Kotlin" }
p { +"this format is now type-safe" }

a(href="http://jetbrains.com/kotlin") { +"Kotlin" }
}
}

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Generics: Invariance
class List<T> {
fun add(t : T)
fun get(index : Int) : T
}

val ints = List<Int>()
val anys : List<Any> = ints
anys.add("1") // Cause of the problem
val i : Int = ints.get(0) // !!!
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Generics: Declaration-site variance
class List<T> { List<Int> >:< List<Any>
fun add(t : T) val ints = List<Int>()
fun get() : T val anys : List<Any> = ints
}

class Producer<out T> { val ints = Producer<Int>()
fun get() : T val anys : Producer<Any> = ints
}

class Consumer<in T> { val anys = Consumer<Any>()
fun add(t : T) val ints : Consumer<Int> = anys
}

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Generics: Use-site variance
val anysOut : List<out Any> = ints
anysOut.add("1") // Not available
val i : Int = ints.get() // No problem

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Generics: Use-site variance
val anysOut : List<out Any> = ints
anysOut.add("1") // Not available
val i : Int = ints.get() // No problem

val anys = List<Any>()
val intsIn : List<in Int> = anys
intsIn.add(0)
val obj = intsIn.get() // : Any?

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Reified generics
• Type information in retained at runtime
➡ foo is List<T>
➡ Array<T>(3)
➡ T.create()

• Java types are still erased
➡ foo is java.util.List<*>

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Resources
• Documentation:
➡ http://jetbrains.com/kotlin

• Blog:
➡ http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin

• Twitter:
➡ @project_kotlin
➡ @abreslav

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