Kotlin Kurious

While my interest stemmed from its ability to run in the JVM, and wasn’t looking to get into Android development, i’m glad i went through it and had a fun time learning about Kotlin

• Concepts like Type aliasing, Elvis operator
• Statically typed but offers type inference
• Interoperability (notably with Spring), backwards compatibility and tooling
• Concurrency via coroutines
• Functional programming
• Duality of the by keyword
  • delegates the implementation of an interface to another object
  • delegate the initialization
• using special characters in function names wrapped in backticks
• using the with standard function to avoid repeating myMemento.think()

Books that helped me on this summer fling

• Head First Kotlin from O’Reilly
• Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices from Packt
• Kotlin Cookbook from O’Reilly

This time I created an organization for the Kotlin repos https://github.com/kotlin-kurious