Advanced Kotlin: New Features and More

Google Tech Talk October 4, 2012 Presented by Andrey Breslav. ABSTRACT Kotlin is a modern statically typed language targeting JVM and JavaScript and intended for industrial use. The main goal behind this project is to create a language that would be a good tool for developers, i.e. will be safe, concise, flexible, 100% Java-compatible and well-supported by IDE and other tooling. Kotlin is an open-source project developed by JetBrains, creators of IntelliJ IDEA and ReSharper, with the help of the community. This talk gives an overview of the language in its present state and a perspective we have for the future. Among other things, the following features will be covered: * Static null-safety * Extension functions * Higher-order functions and type-safe builders * Smart casts: Kotlin's lightweight pattern matching * Enhancing existing Java APIs with Kotlin * Developing mixed Kotlin/Java projects To find out more about Kotlin, please refer to http://kotlin.jetbrains.org Slides in Prezi http://prezi.com/himfy6vlxxlx/kotlin-uberconf/ Code examples from the talk https://github.com/abreslav/introduction-to-kotlin About the speaker: Andrey is the lead language designer working on Project Kotlin at JetBrains (http://kotlin.jetbrains.org/). He also works on making the Java language better, serving as a Java Community Process expert in a group for JSR-335 ("Project Lambda"). In what spare time is left he tries to make sure that his traveling is not all about work and teaches programming to high-school children. Used to teach OOP/Software Design at a university, but currently switched to speaking at software conferences such as JavaOne and Devoxx.