Spring and Kotlin
Iuliana Cosmina · Apress eBooks · 2019
Until this chapter in the book, Spring applications were written using Java. This chapter teaches you how to write Spring applications using Kotlin. Kotlin is a JVM programming language that my favorite software company, JetBrains (the same company that develops IntelliJ IDEA), started working on in 2011. As an IntelliJ IDEA fan since 2005, I cannot imagine JetBrains producing something that is not absolutely great. So, clearly, Kotlin had to be another awesome product. After seeing Josh Long’s “Bootiful Kotlin” presentation at the Spring IO conference in Barcelona, I decided that this was a programming language that I needed to learn.