Kotlin's winning strategy

Kotlin's winning strategy is the sum of the various factors that we have seen previously. It has a two-pronged strategy to win over the developers with the coolness of the language, and the ease of working with it, to win over business users with its business benefits. The following illustration shows us the different benefits of using Kotlin:

The other benefits also include:

• The growing popularity of the language
• Endorsement from Google to make Kotlin an officially supported language in May 2017
• Kotlin-specific development frameworks emerging
• Leading Java frameworks, such as Spring, offering Kotlin-specific improvements
• The growing number of applications being tried out with Kotlin
• The user groups spread across Kotlin developer hubs
• The growing number of technology companies using Kotlin

With this in mind, the winning strategy for smart programmers is to master Kotlin and learn to work with Kotlin on various platforms. Being ahead of the curve as opposed to following the world after Kotlin is already big but it will be a quick path to being recognized as a leader. Further chapters of this book will help you in exactly this mission.

Apart from going through this book, we strongly suggest you join the community.

Join the Kotlin weekly mailing list at http://kotlinweekly.net.

Join the nearest Kotlin user group at http://kotlinlang.org/community/user-groups.html.

Kotlin's community on Slack is at https://kotlinlang.slack.com/.