Chetan Padia’s talk to the Brighton Java group on why the Kotlin language is worth a look. My take away from this was that those reasons are:
- Tooling from IntelliJ makes it a great experience.
- Google have adopted it.
- More concise than Java, and null safety via Optional types.
Update: the recording is on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4J2KOTB_1pE