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&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been using Kotlin for a while now, and I&amp;rsquo;ve been using it to write JavaFX applications. What I&amp;rsquo;ve found is that the things that make Kotlin better than Java, make Kotlin way, way better for JavaFX.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Kotlin For Java Programmers</title><link>http://localhost:1313/kotlin/2022-12-19-kotlinforjava/</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2022 12:00:00 -0500</pubDate><author>nuno@n9o.xyz (Blowfish)</author><guid>http://localhost:1313/kotlin/2022-12-19-kotlinforjava/</guid><description>&lt;h1 class="relative group"&gt;Introduction
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&lt;p&gt;The first time I ever looked at a Kotlin program was when one of my developers found a cool JavaFX library called &lt;a href="https://github.com/thomasnield/DirtyFX" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"&gt;&amp;ldquo;DirtyFX&amp;rdquo;&lt;/a&gt;. We wanted to understand it worked, but when we looked at the source code on GitHub we were stymied because it was in Kotlin.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item><item><title>Kotlin - Should You?</title><link>http://localhost:1313/kotlin/2021-12-11-kotlin_should_you/</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 10:33:44 -0500</pubDate><author>nuno@n9o.xyz (Blowfish)</author><guid>http://localhost:1313/kotlin/2021-12-11-kotlin_should_you/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;Kotlin has been described as, &amp;ldquo;The language that Java would have been if it had been designed 25 years later&amp;rdquo;. It&amp;rsquo;s starting to pick up popularity, and has had a boost from being endorsed by Google for Android development.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>