Written for a talk/video. The slides for that are here: https://github.com/andybalaam/videos-examples-of-kotlin-making-code-better ...

The typical rough estimate indicates approximately a 40% cut in the number of lines of code from Java to Kotlin. In other environments, the situation is different. For example, Apache Spark is ...

Kotlin vs Java, the latter offers more succinct code ... Meanwhile, Kotlin’s delegated properties help prevent the duplication of code, for example if you need to reuse the same code for ...

Here’s a simple example from Kotlin’s documentation ... and improve areas where coding can become bogged down. Whereas Java code tends toward the rigorous and explicit, Kotlin leans towards ...

Today, Android tutorials typically provide examples in both Java and ... to get to grips with as compared with Java. Kotlin requires less “boilerplate code.” This means there is less ...

For example, consider the below snippet in ... but the good news is that there’s a workaround to convert Java code into Kotlin code by using an experimental feature called Kapt (Kotlinc-Android).

We have a handy tool for Java developers: Java to Kotlin converter. It works better in Intellij, but you can try it online as well. To become familiar with it, please convert the ...