172 iPS Kotlin vs Swift with Andrew Rahn
Show Notes
1:10: Introduction: Andy Rahn
- Works for Iconfactory
- Swift
- Lua
- Kotlin
6:20: Kotlin: What it is, who is responsible
- New language by JetBrains
- Similar to Swift but for Android
10:50: Future of Kotlin
- Google looking at Kotlin?
- Running on the JVM
15:45: Benefits of Kotlin: Familiarity
- Feels familiar; same syntax as Swift
- Shares similar disadvantages
19:20: Interacting with Java API
- Nullability
- Bridging
23:20: Kotlin vs. Xcode
- Kotlin has many more features
- Debugger in Android Studio difficult to use
25:20: Unit testing in Kotlin
26:10: Kotlin is stable
- Swift is moving more quickly
29:40: Swift vs Kotlin: Advanced features
- Generics
- Compile time analysis
- Reactive extensions
37:25: How many are using Kotlin?
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