Try Kotlin for your next side project

Last Update: 05.04.2018. By Jens in Developers Life | Learning | Newsletter

I’ve recently started a Spring Boot local meetup here in Frankfurt. We already had a great start with a talk about “Moving from Java to Kotlin with Spring Boot”. It was great to get first-hand experience from devs who already work with the Kotlin-Spring Boot combination.

One thing that came across very clearly, and somehow baffled me, was that all will pick Kotlin over Java anytime they get the chance too. I asked them what their personal killer-feature is and almost all had a hard time picking just one. Null-safety was ranking high as writing less code and better collection handling.

What fascinates me the most is that Kotlin seems to have done something right; something that modern Java and Scala could no do. Something you will probably only understand when you make your own experience building stuff with it. A perfect safe way is coding your next learning-side-project in Kotlin…

BTW you can find the slides here and the code here; they are in English.