How the Kotlin programming language has conquered Android
When Google announced in 2017 that Kotlin would now be supported as an official Android language, the audience cheered loudly. That enthusiasm has turned into adoption, as 80 percent of all apps on Android now use Kotlin. What's behind the rapid rise of this programming language?
The development... Read more
JetBrains introduces stable version of Kotlin Multiplatform
JetBrains has recently released a stable version of Kotlin Multiplatform for the first time. The tool allows developers to build applications and reuse code for multiple platforms more easily.
Kotlin Multiplatform is a technology that JetBrains developed in beta form in 2022. This technology all... Read more
Android Studio has released its latest stable version, Flamingo
Among its many features, Flamingo introduces Live Edit for Composable UIs, which lets developers push code changes directly to an attached device or emulator to update an app's composables in real-time. This streamlines the build-deploy-iterate cycle for UI programming by reducing context switching... Read more
JetBrains releases results for the State of Developer Ecosystem 2022
The tools vendor has released the results of their sixth annual survey on the landscape of the developer community.
Each year, JetBrains conducts their Developer Ecosystem Survey to deliver an overview of the trends and complexion of the development world. The 2022 survey report was created from... Read more
Google positions Carbon as an experimental successor to C++
The Carbon Language was presented by Google software engineer Chandler Carruth at Toronto's C++ North conference this week. Chandler described the programming language as an "experimental successor to C++", sparking much interest in the C++ community.
Given the interest the community has shown ... Read more
Kotlin 1.5.0 offers JVM records and a new JVM IR compiler
JetBrains has released version 1.5.0 of its Kotlin programming language. The new version introduces, among others, support for JVM records and the new standard JVM IR compiler.
Version 1.5.0 is the first update according to the new six-monthly release schedule. Previously updates were only relea... Read more
Developer survey shows C# losing ground to JavaScript and others
C# falls in popularity for cloud apps but is still a major player in gaming
A new developer survey from Slashdata has shown the popularity of C# dropping from third to sixth place in three years. C# is the primary language of Microsoft's .NET platform.
Despite the drop in popularity, however,... Read more