{"id":9087,"date":"2020-09-04T04:03:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2020-09-04T04:03:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T08:03:54","slug":"kotlin-1-4-release-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/kotlin-1-4-release-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotlin 1.4 Release Strong Focus on Quality and Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kotlin 1.4 release was announced to the developer community with a strong focus on improving quality, performance, new features, and tooling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kotlin 1.4 release was made available to the developer community a couple of weeks ago with a strong focus on improving quality-of-life and performance as well as new features.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/kotlin\">Kotlin<\/a>, which is very popular in Android development is a programming language best known as a better version of <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/java\">Java<\/a> that can compile to either Java bytecode and native code, as well as transpile to <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/javascript\">JavaScript<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This release comes with improved <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/ides\">IDE<\/a> performance and stability, including freezes or memory leaks, all these making Kotlin 1.4 up to four times faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>autocomplete suggestions now appear much faster in <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/intellij-idea\">IntelliJ IDEA<\/a> 2020.1+ and <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/android-studio\">Android Studio<\/a> 4.1+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other highlights of the Kotlin 1.4 release includes some features of their new compiler, most notably a new and more powerful type inference algorithm, and new JVM and JS backends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for language features this release now has SAM (Single Abstract Method) conversions for Kotlin interfaces, explicit API mode for library authors that allows the compiler to perform additional checks that help make the library&#8217;s API clearer and more consistent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mixing named and positional arguments where you can now specify a name for an argument in the middle of a set of positional arguments. 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