Join 5 senior technologists from major enterprises in the New York area discuss their thoughts on the latest trends in Java.  We'll discuss thoughts on the new release model, modules, modern garbage collectors, kotlin for the enterprise, Eclipse stewardship of JEE and even the rising complexity of the Java source language. Bring your questions for our New York panel of experts.

Most presentations introducing a new programming language are really just simple language tours.  A lot of interesting language features are shown but it's not always clear *why* one would choose to adopt that new language. This presentation will start by looking at the layout and syntax of Kotlin projects.  We'll gain a grasp of broad strokes of Kotlin syntax. But from there we'll move to a more in-depth discussion how these new language features combine to present a compelling new alternative to the Java source language.  We'll look at a few "big ticket" features of the language and its ecosystem that do more to distinguish Kotlin than mere syntax sugar alone can provide.

This is talk is largely driven by code from the IDE.  Apart from some initial introductory slides, everything else happens in IDE or the command shell.  The talk is designed to cover a handful of interesting bigger ticket items rather than every single little nuance of the language.  Because, while syntax can be important, ultimately it's not a large factor when it comes to language adoption. Larger scale, dare I say, higher order features that can truly drive productivity ultimately win the day.  This talk is designed to highlight some of those features.