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Kotlin Edu: Learn and teach Kotlin with official, easy and professional tools
- philonoist 9y agoWhen I was reading about Kotlin Edu, I thought it is far too soon to think in the lines of PyCharm Edu. Pycharm Edu cashed upon a widespread adoption because Python was already a de-facto language be it through MOOC or classroom teaching. Kotlin on the other hand, though not anywhere close to python in terms of popularity, is a language built on a strong IDE which was almost default among students(who in CS-field wouldn't know this best thing is free?) and industry (Open source contributors who grab this free product and paid users in the most competitive parts already revere it). I think Jetbrains is marketing itself for a huge investment into the future by giving itself away free to right people( for now). Kotlin, given its partnership with Google for Android Dev and its popular opinion as 'what Scala should have been' is already winning a slow battle to replace Java. I guess Jetbrains will gain more this way than Oracle did with Sun and Java. In steps the Edu version and a little bit of convincing that it is a good learning language for universities to teach programming, language design features, design patterns, implementation of complex and abstract algorithms, and how better off it is replacing Java in industry. This is a huge step. This is a surprising business strategy to gain competitive advantage for a noob like me to learn.