Hacker News with Generative AI: Kotlin

My Thoughts on Kotlin: Perspectives after 4 years (tylerrussell.dev)
Often, when explaining to other devs that Masset uses Kotlin as our primary backend language, I receive inquisitive and questioning faces. “The Android language? On your backend? That seems odd… Have you considered rewriting it in Rust?” 🤨

Programming Languages, Kotlin, Backend Development

20 points by terussell85 8 days ago | 11 comments

Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin (engineering.fb.com)
Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin.

Programming Languages, Software Engineering, Android, Java, Kotlin

226 points by ermatt 30 days ago | 265 comments

Kotlin to lose scripting features (infoworld.com)
JetBrains plans to drop some scripting-related technologies from the Kotlin language, including REPL functionality, an obsolete API for Java scripting, the KotlinScriptMojo Maven plugin, and the kotlin-scripting-ide-services library for implementing code completion functionality.

Kotlin, Programming Languages, Scripting, JetBrains

8 points by flykespice 50 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Kotlin Money (eriksen.com.br)
Manipulating monetary amounts is a common computing chore. However, no mainstream language has a first-class data type for representing money, it’s up to programmers to code abstractions for it. This isn’t an issue per se until dealing with rounding issues from operations like installment payments (e.g., buy now, pay later), foreign exchange, or even simple things like fee processing and tax collection.

Programming, Kotlin, Software, Finance

427 points by eriksencosta 102 days ago | 228 comments

Kotlin for data analysis (kotlinlang.org)

Kotlin, Data Analysis, Programming Languages

172 points by saikatsg 142 days ago | 104 comments

Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter? (ycombinator.com)

Kotlin, Flutter, Cross-Platform Development, Mobile Development

54 points by Aaronreddix 211 days ago | 78 comments

Celebrating Kotlin 2.0: Fast, Smart, and Multiplatform (jetbrains.com)

Kotlin, Programming Languages, Software Development, Release Announcements

15 points by snafu109 240 days ago | 3 comments

What's New in Kotlin 2.0.0 (kotlinlang.org)