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The Kotlin Programming Language (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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What's the Biggest Change in Android Studio?

Kotlin is to Java as Swift is to Objective-C. Google has certainly tried to build languages internally and some of them like one of them is very successful, so not all are the same. Here we have Kotlin, you know, perhaps over time replacing Java on Android, but it's from a third party. This came from a tooling company. And I'm pretty sure there's enough expertise inside of Google that they could build a new language with those wild things in mind.

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