Integrating Kotlin with a Dropwizard App

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Kotlin is a newish language that runs on the JVM and integrates seamlessly with existing Java code. Kotlin is concise, ergonomic, and thoughtful. We’ll look at low cost and frictionless ways of integrating Kotlin into an existing Java codebase. You can add in Kotlin piecemeal so there is very little time lost to writing Kotlin today. For purposes of demonstration our frame of mind will be from writing a Dropwizard app.