Kotlin Tutorial – Quick Reference – Getting Started with Kotlin
Introduction Disclaimer: This reference has originally been published as a DZone Refcard. Kotlin has become one of the most popular JVM languages in the past few months. One special reason is that it experienced a lot of attention in the Android community after Google made Kotlin an official language for Android development. Kotlin is being developed by JetBrains, who are responsible for the most famous IDEs out there, most notably IntelliJ IDEA. Nevertheless, it's an open source language, which can be found on GitHub. The language is said to be very concise, safe in terms of error frequency, interoperable with Java and also offers many features that enable functional programming, writing type-safe DSLs and much more. Beside the JVM, Kotlin can compile for most Android versions, down to machine code…