"JAVA IS GREAT BUT KOTLIN WILL TAKE OVER IT SOON."

Who is James Ward?

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Recently, in an interview with InfoQ he was asked about the status of JVM languages in 2022, to which he replied

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"Kotlin is an incremental step for existing Java developers having good support for some Functional paradigms like immutability and sum types. Kotlin has great interoperability with Java, enabling ecosystem sharing."

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According to him, Java was always the most popular programming language for Android Development, but now Kotlin has become the "one-stop language" for mobile app development.

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But why Android Developers are now preferring Kotlin over Java?

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This is because Kotlin is known to perform better compared to Java owing to its additional features.

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The best thing about Kotlin is that the apps built with this programming language also operate smoothly on old Android phones. It allows the Android app to be used by a greater number of users.

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Kotlin is simpler and easier to understand and use than Java. This is the reason of its growing popularity.

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Want to know the difference between the two in detail?

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