Kotlin from Php Eyes | First Look

As you might have heard about Kotlin, the new famous easily adoptable language for Java engineers. Kotlin was designed to be an alternative to Java with a concise and easy syntax without much of the boilerplate code as one would do in Java. So naturally it is easier for a Java engineers to learn Kotlin as they are already familiar with the ecosystem and all fancy names and building mechanism.

But for someone like me who has never worked with Java, but do have experience with PHP and Python, how this new language feels and look like?

• Gradle/Maven buil
• Namespaces vs packages

• Delegates

• Extension Functions
  https://kotlinlang.org/docs/extensions.html#extension-functions

• Lambdas

• Scope Functions
  https://kotlinlang.org/docs/scope-functions.html#function-selection

• Data Classes

• Equals and HashCode Functoions

• Serialization
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