The jvm platform has become (again) the most exciting platform to work with in recent times. And my favorite there is Kotlin. kotlin 1.1 (still in milestone) i

The jvm platform has become (again) the most exciting platform to work with in recent times. And my favorite there is Kotlin. kotlin 1.1 (still in milestone) is a brilliant and compelling language to use on the JVM. Spring 5 is a very "functional" web framework that will come out in a few months with first class kotlin support (even today, it is fairly excellent [1]) Vert.x [2] has incredible support for Kotlin and is coming up with built in kotlin support. Coroutines got merged fairly recently [3] Reactor (https://projectreactor.io/ https://projectreactor.io/) and Rxjava have had kotlin support for a long time. The tooling is excellent (umm.. it was developed by Jetbrains). The killer app/functionality ? Android. Kotlin is the swift of Android and that's where its uptake is coming from. [1] https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-boot-kotlin-demo/tree/all-open https://github.com/sdeleuze/spring-boot-kotlin-demo/tree/all... [2] http://vertx.io/whos_using/ http://vertx.io/whos_using/ [3] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2016/07/first-glimpse-of-kotlin-1-1-coroutines-type-aliases-and-more/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2016/07/first-glimpse-of-k....