Andrey Breslav - Kotlin Language for the Java Platform

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    With the kind permission of the JUG.ru community of Java developers , we are publishing a video of Andrei Breslav's speech about the new Kotlin programming language for the Java platform , which took place at a meeting on April 26.

    Andrey spoke about the main features of the language, the tasks facing the developers of Kotlin, its “features”, the development process, and how the interaction of Kotlin and Java is implemented:
    • how code written in one of the languages ​​can access libraries written in another;
    • how mixed projects are compiled, in which part is written in Kotlin and part in Java;
    • how Kotlin extends existing Java libraries with new useful features.


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    imageAndrei Breslav ( abreslav ) leads the development of the Kotlin language at JetBrains, teaches at the Physics and Mathematics Lyceum and speaks at various conferences, talking about Kotlin, as well as the fundamental principles that underpin the profession of software developer.

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