Meta begins to migrate its code to kotlin The Meta company, which has as its products the social networks facebook, whatsapp, instagram, and others, has decided to migrate its applications for android from Java code to kotlin code, in order not to remain stagnant and adapt to new technologies. Kotlin is a younger programming language than Java, which is also based on the Java virtual machine (or JVM). Google adopted it in 2018 as a compatible language for android development and put it under the management of its own foundation, funded by jetbrains and Google. The kotlin language is more concise than Java; it is estimated that with this language, lines of code are reduced by 40% compared to Java. Kotlin provides several advanced functions, such as operator overloading, lambda expressions, string templates, etc. In addition to this kotlin is less prone to errors because it is a static type programming language, which allows you to detect errors at compile time. Facebook software e...