EXPLORING KOTLIN’S ENHANCEMENTS FOR MULTIPLATFORM PROJECTS

There has been a huge growing interest for using the newly launched Kotlin programming language in scientific and engineering applications. While Java which is one of the most widely used programming languages and also the official language of Android development, there are various reasons why Java might not always be the best option for various projects. This is just because Kotlin truly offers several features, which other traditional languages (C, C++, Java and FORTRAN) lack. Also, the historic poor performance of Java stops it from being widely used in scientific applications. Kotlin 1.2 was a major new release and a big step on the road towards enabling the use of Kotlin across all components of a modern application and multiplatform project. This study explores the major improvements and feature scopes over the year of the newly released enhanced version of Kotlin.