Kotlin is a modern alternative to Java that supports functional programming in the JVM. Here's a first look at programming with Kotlin using some of the concepts and syntax you already know from Java.

Java has been very active lately in improving its concurrency model, and some of the improvements are inspired by Kotlin’s coroutines. Coroutines give you a different kind of access to threading.

However, it’s worth noting that many developers using Kotlin for AI still rely heavily on Java libraries due to Kotlin’s Java interoperability. And in the context of AI, Java has many advantages.

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You can use a Kotlin library from Java. This offers the same benefit as Java libraries in Kotlin: it’s relatively easy to create a Kotlin library that can be used from Java without feeling alien.