Kotlin: Beyond Dogmatism

Kotlin is a new language developed by JetBrains and licenses under Apache 2 OSS License, targeting the JVM and JavaScript. When presented, the typical question asked is "Why another language?". What core fundamentals does it bring to the table? Tell you what, let's move beyond dogmatism and be pragmatic. Let's focus on the problems we're trying to solve when developing applications and see why and how Kotlin can help us.