Five Things That Make Kotlin Interesting

I've been experimenting with Kotlin for a few weeks now and have been deeply impressed by how easy it is to get started with. This stems from three things: The Intellij tooling is excellent, as noted in the article, and the adoption curve is beautifully mild as you can easily integrate as much or as little Kotlin as you like with any Java project.

That of course doesn't say _why_ you would want to use it. The third thing that makes it easy to adopt is that it feels very familiar to most devs who come from a C# or Java background. It is really just a modern Java where nearly every aspect of the language has been upgraded. Writing code in Kotlin feels elegant.