You may have heard of the Kotlin language before, but recently it has seen a big spike in popularity thanks to Google officially adopting it for Android development, alongside Java and C++.

Kotlin is an interesting statically typed language, developed by the good folks at Jetbrains, that shares many similarities with the likes of Scala and Swift. In a sense, it could be thought of the equivalent of Swift for the Java platform: a more modern, concise and safer language that runs in the JVM, fully interoperable with Java.

If that’s not enough, Kotlin also aims at compiling for other targets beyond the JVM, such as Javascript and native platforms and seeks to support asynchronous programming via coroutines and non blocking I/O.

In the context of using Kotlin with SmartFoxServer nothing would be easier: the integration on both server side and client side is painless and it works out of the box with any SFS2X release.

Let’s take a closer look, shall we? Continue reading →