Logging plays a crucial role in app development. As well as debugging everyday issues with the product, a good logger will monitor application behavior and gain insights into user interactions. This is particularly crucial for iOS developers given the frequency of Apple’s official updates and the ferocious competition in the marketplace.

Kotlin was built to replace Java. Or at least, supersede it for a wide range of Android development tasks. Released by JetBrains in 2016, it is designed to address some of Java’s drawbacks and provide a smoother, faster alternative for devs everywhere. So really the question in the title is redundant, right? Kotlin is just better, surely? Well, actually it’s much more nuanced than that.