{"id":2430,"date":"2016-05-14T03:54:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T07:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2016-05-14T03:54:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T07:54:01","slug":"kotlin-1-0-2-update-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/kotlin-1-0-2-update-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotlin 1.0.2 Update is now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"
The fellows at JetBrains have announced the release of Kotlin 1.0.2 which comes with a number of new features as well as bug fixes in the language and compiler.<\/p>\n
Kotlin<\/a> is a statically typed programming language for the browser, Android and the JVM and is 100% interoperable with Java.<\/p>\n The interesting improvements in Kotlin 1.0.2 are set thanks to Gradle<\/a>, Kotlin has incremental compilation support. This is a plus as it speeds up the turnaround time during development. Now enabled by default. The incremental compilation was previously available as an experimental feature.<\/p>\n In addition to that Android, Lint checks are now supported for more reliable API checks into the target Android versions. Android developers also benefit from a much smaller standard library with fewer methods.<\/p>\n Now, there is support for Java 7 and 8 as well as improved JavaScript support. Don’t take our word for it but rather check out the detailed changelog<\/a>\u00a0to get the full scope of the improvements in Kotlin 1.0.2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fellows at JetBrains have announced the release of Kotlin 1.0.2 which comes with a number of new features as well as bug fixes in the language and compiler. Kotlin…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,28,16],"tags":[143,306,327,342,350,472,543,544,591],"yoast_head":"\nThe new stuff in Kotlin 1.0.2<\/h2>\n