How it all went down at the first Kotlin meetup Uganda at outbox.

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The first kotlin meetup uganda was held on friday 19th  jan 2018 at  Outbox Incubation Hub Kampala with developers from across kampala sharing their opinions about the latest powerful language kotlin that was recently made official by  Google to support android app development.  The event was colorfully kicked off with self introductions from the members around  and was officially kicked off by Wanareeba Innocent from the host Hackshade Tech.

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Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine and also can be compiled to JavaScript source code or use the LLVM compiler infrastructure .

 

The meetup was extremely interactive with developers sharing various opinions and ideas about many things kotlin will have to change about the development environment in uganda and ofcourse the whole world . Perhaps the most concern developers are anxious about is whether java is almost meeting it’s demise  after Google officially announced support for the Kotlin.

Kotlin was developed by the jetBrains engineers from Russia saint petersburg and has since been famous of it’s short code and easier to learn curve . The question many developers will still have to ask is whether java will die out because of its steadily growing rival. However many developers at  the Kotlin meetup Uganda were quick enough to raise their concerns as to why they think java can’t easily die out citing reasons like java has a huge developer community that provides reliable resources unlike the latter, java has monopoly over a lot or not even all devices and many other reasons , however every person is entitled to his opinion. I believe it’s just the issue of time we determine whether Kotlin will give java a run of it’s community otherwise the developers anxiety can’t easily determine this.

Below are some of the captioned moments at the event.

How it all went down at the first Kotlin meetup Uganda at outbox.
How it all went down at the first Kotlin meetup Uganda at outbox.