Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

While Kotlin provides some features that are entirely new — for instance, a type system designed to prevent bugs such as the dreaded null pointer references — it was paramount that it operates ...

Kotlin is a modern alternative to Java that supports functional programming in the JVM. Here's a first look at programming with Kotlin using some of the concepts and syntax you already know from Java.

Oracle's Java 15: New features aim to keep millions away from languages like Rust, Kotlin Oracle releases programming language Java 15 to push its dream of 'write once, run everywhere'.

In May Google gave Android developers another option when it announced it would start supporting a new programming language called Kotlin, which offers most of the same basic features as Java plus ...