Kotlin and Vaadin for productive and fun web app development

Kotlin and Vaadin

Kotlin is a programming language that has gained much popularity over the last few years. Its concise and expressive syntax feels liberating compared to the verbosity of Java. Vaadin supports the Kotlin programming language through the Karibu-DSL library, which contains various extensions to use Vaadin and Kotlin together.

Despite its simplicity, Kotlin is a fully type-safe language and helps you avoid many common programming errors in Java, such as null-pointer exceptions. Kotlin runs on the JVM and is fully interoperable with existing Java code, which means you can use it both in new and existing projects.

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