Why Kotlin? At TouK, we try to early adopt technologies. We don’t have a starter project skeleton that is reused in every new project, we want to try something that fits the project needs, even if it’s not that popular yet. We tried Kotlin first it mid 2016, right after reaching 1.0.2 version
Extensions in Kotlin are very powerful mechanism. It allows for add any method to any of existing classes. Each instance has (as in Java) equals, toString and hashCode methods, but there is much more in Kotlin.Example classesLet's define some simple cl...
Suppose you want write a jaxb class in groovy. Why? Because you do not have to write these all getters, setters and other methods. You only have to write your fields down.@XmlRootElement@HashCodeAndEquals@ToStringclass Person { String firstName String ...