Kotlin

Introduction # I’ve been using Kotlin for a while now, and I’ve been using it to write JavaFX applications. What I’ve found is that the things that make Kotlin better than Java, make Kotlin way, way better for JavaFX.

Introduction # The first time I ever looked at a Kotlin program was when one of my developers found a cool JavaFX library called “DirtyFX”. We wanted to understand it worked, but when we looked at the source code on GitHub we were stymied because it was in Kotlin.

Kotlin has been described as, “The language that Java would have been if it had been designed 25 years later”. It’s starting to pick up popularity, and has had a boost from being endorsed by Google for Android development.