I-Kotlin isiwulimi lokuhlela olukhethwayo lwe-Android

I-Google engqungqutheleni ye-Google I/O 2019 kubhulogi yonjiniyela besistimu yokusebenza ye-Android kumenyezelweukuthi ulimi lohlelo lwe-Kotlin manje sekuwulimi olukhethwayo lokuthuthukisa izinhlelo zokusebenza zesistimu yayo yokusebenza yeselula, okusho ukuthi isekelwa inkampani kuwo wonke amathuluzi, izingxenye nama-API uma kuqhathaniswa nezinye izilimi. 

"Ukuthuthukiswa kwe-Android kuzogxila kakhulu ku-Kotlin," kubhala i-Google esimemezelweni. “Ama-API amaningi e-Jetpack nezingxenye azonikezwa kuqala ku-Kotlin. Uma uqala iphrojekthi entsha, kufanele uyibhale ku-Kotlin. Ikhodi ebhalwe e-Kotlin ngokuvamile isho ikhodi encane kakhulu ongayibhala, uyihlole, futhi uyigcine.”

Eminyakeni emibili nje edlule, ku-I/O 2017, i-Google yaqala ukumemezela ukwesekwa kwe-Kotlin ku-IDE yayo, i-Android Studio. Lokhu kuyamangaza, uma kubhekwa ukuthi i-Java sekuyisikhathi eside iwulimi olukhethwayo ekuthuthukisweni kohlelo lokusebenza lwe-Android. Izimemezelo ezimbalwa engqungqutheleni ngalowo nyaka zashayelwa ihlombe. Eminyakeni emibili edlule, ukuthandwa kukaKotlin kuye kwanda kuphela. Ngokusho kwe-Google, ngaphezu kuka-50% wonjiniyela be-Android abangochwepheshe basebenzisa ulimi ukuze bathuthukise izinhlelo zabo zokusebenza, futhi libalwa njengolimi lwezinhlelo lwesine oludume kakhulu emhlabeni ocwaningweni lwakamuva lonjiniyela we-Stack Overflow.

Futhi manje kubukeka sengathi i-Google ithole indlela yokwandisa ukwesekwa kwayo kwe-Kotlin. "Simemezela ukuthi isinyathelo esikhulu esilandelayo esisithathayo ukuthi i-Kotlin izoba ngowokuqala," kusho u-Chet Haase, unjiniyela wethimba le-Android UI Toolkit kwa-Google.

“Siyaqonda ukuthi akuyena wonke umuntu osebenzisa i-Kotlin okwamanje, kodwa sikholwa ukuthi kufanele uyizame,” kuqhuba u-Haase. “Ungase ube nezizathu ezinhle zokusebenzisa izilimi zokuhlela ze-C++ ne-Java, futhi lokho kulungile ngokuphelele. Abayi ndawo."

Kuyaphawuleka ukuthi i-Kotlin yasungulwa ngabakwaJetBrains, inkampani eyasungulwa abantu bakithi futhi enamahhovisi eMoscow, eSt. Petersburg naseNovosibirsk. Ngakho-ke, i-Kotlin ingabhekwa kakhulu njengentuthuko yasekhaya eye yazuza ukuqashelwa emhlabeni jikelele. Kusesele ukuhalalisela ithimba le-JetBrains ngale mpumelelo futhi silifisela intuthuko enezithelo.