Ladislav Thon - The Kotlin Programming Language
Channel: RedHatCzech
Date: 2014-02-20

A lot of people in the Java community has been long longing for some kind of a "Java.next" language, a language that will be modern yet keep the design spirit. There is a lot of more or less suitable candidates -- let's take a brief look at some of them and then examine Kotlin in more detail. Kotlin comes from JetBrains, a company with more than 10 years of experience developing industry-leading developer tools and therefore pretty unique perspective on language design. We'll take a look at some of the more interesting features: null-safety and other nice little things in the type system, language-supported delegation, lambdas, extension methods and DSL support. Few words about Java interop too.

Slides: http://devconf.cz/filebrowser/download/381