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Java saw an era of everyone singing its praises. This already established and widely popular language is facing a huge Android app development market challenge by a newbie - Kotlin. The race is to become the best-fit programming language among the Android application developers.  In 2019, StackOverflow ranked Kotlin as the 5th ‘Most Wanted Language’, whereas Java stood up 9th in the rank list. This points to the drifting interest of the programmers from Java to Kotlin.

Why does Kotlin seem to win the battle over Java? What are the features which make Kotlin a better programming language than Java?
Let’s try to find out the answers below.


1.     High Compatibility with Java
Kotlin possesses high compatibility with Java. There is no need to reform an application project build using Java programming language from the grass-roots level before it can be imported to Kotlin. Also, the Java libraries work fluently with Kotlin, and anyone could thus, migrate a project easily from Java to Kotlin.


2.     More Concise
A code chunk with the same programming logic in Kotlin has fewer lines than a Java code snippet. This conciseness assists in better readability, quicker scanning, and easy debugging of a program.


3.     Safer Coding for Programmers
From the initial stages of app building, Kotlin compels the developers to keep a track of and continuously check their projects. This omits the possible crashes and failures of the program during run time.


4.     Comes with a Smart Compiler
Kotlin comes with a smarter compiler than Java. The Kotlin compiler has a better error identification facility and it performs continuous checks to remove code-bugs from the very beginning, allowing hassle-free and smooth running of programs.


5.     Maintenance is Easier
Kotlin is very friendly with Android Studio and other IDEs. The developer can, so, utilize all the tools in Kotlin which he used for maintaining the codes in Java. This ease in maintenance is a powerful edge of Kotlin over Java.


The conclusion is simply that the developers of Kotlin considered the disadvantages and lacking features of Java, rectified them, and incorporated the missing and modified facilities in Kotlin programming language, thus making it easier to use, maintain, and scaled-up with the current demands. Such benefits are making Kotlin more popular than Java in the Android application market.
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