The decision of which technology stack to use for a new mobile application is one of the most critical choices a business ...

The new Spring Framework uses JSpecify for null safety. It also introduces API versioning and offers a new retry concept for resilience. VMWare Tenzu has released Spring Framework 7. The open-source ...

In the world of Android development, a heated debate has emerged between two programming languages: Java which has been the key language since long and Kotlin, which is soaring its popularity in ...

Kotlin is a modern programming language that has become the go-to choice for Android development due to its concise syntax. It is also known for its interoperability with Java and robust safety ...

In Kotlin, every variable and object reference has a type, and that type can be either nullable or non-nullable. A nullable type can hold a value or a special value called null, which means that the ...

Kotlin and Java have different approaches to nullability. In Kotlin, every variable of type `X` can be 'null' and the compiler guarantees it. In Java, the compiler refuses to call members on possible ...

Kotlin 1.5.20 also has experimental support for JSpecify, which provides standard Java annotations for static analysis. A unified set of Java nullness annotations is featured in JSpecify, providing ...

Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its lead ...