Author: Sarah Ettritch

Introduction When Google announced in May 2017 that Kotlin would become a first-class language for Android, many developers had never heard of it. Just a little over a year later, more and more developers and companies are using it. Why is it gaining popularity? Kotlin is an object-oriented, statically-typed language that can be compiled to…

When Google announced in May 2017 that Kotlin would become a first-class language for Android, many developers had never heard of it. Just a little over a year later, more and more developers and companies are using it. Why is it gaining popularity?

Imagine if you walk into a library looking for a specific book, but the books in the library aren’t organised in any way. They aren’t in alphabetical order or shelved by genre. All you can see are piles of books that reach to the ceiling. When you ask the librarian to get the book for…