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It’s true that Java lost the Android battle to Kotlin, which is now Google’s preferred language and therefore better suited to new mobile apps. But both Kotlin and Java offer many strengths as general-purpose languages, and it’s important for developers to understand the language differences, for purposes such as migrating from Java to Kotlin. In this article, we will break down Kotlin’s and Java’s differences and similarities so you can make informed decisions and move seamlessly between the two.

Are Kotlin and Java Similar?

Indeed, the two languages have a lot in common from a high-level perspective. Both Kotlin and Java run on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instead of building directly to native code. And the two languages can call into each other easily: You can call Java code from Kotlin and Kotlin code from Java. Java can be used in server-side applications, databases, web front-end applications, embedded systems

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