Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

That’s important because if you want to target Android O, create an Instant App, start developing with Kotlin, or use the latest Android app performance tools, you’ll need Android Studio 3.0.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.