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Kotlin: What It Is, What It's Used For

Kotlin was developed by JetBrains. This language came up with the proposal to be simple, concise, intuitive and fast to make, mainly, applications for the Android operating system.

Due to its performance, Kotlin was quickly accepted by the programming community and received notoriety from companies. We can say that the popularization of Kotlin has grown in the last five years.

It can be used both in application development and also used in other ways. Being used in the Back-end and Front-end as well as in the area of data science. But it is in mobile development that it stands out.

Kotlin Features.
The Features that make Kotlin stand out are its Simple Syntax, Interoperability with Java, Safe Codes, Cross platform (which is a multi-platform language).

Is Kotlin difficult to learn?
This will depend from person to person, because Kotlin has specific characteristics and mastering it will depend on the skills that the person has.

Why learn Kotlin.
It is the official language for Android development, and used in companies, the Kotlin developer's career is promising.

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It's modern programming language that android app developers use to develop android application. It's free and open-source and more the 60% of professional developers leverage kotlin.

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It's modern programming language that android app developers use to develop android application.

It's free and open-source and more the 60% of professional developers leverage kotlin.