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Kotlin Alive

Kotlin
KindProgramming language
Appeared2011
StatusAlive
CreatorJetBrains
FamilyC
Sourcekotlinlang.org ↗

The IDE makers' pragmatic Java — null-safety in the type system; Google's blessed Android language.

Influenced by Java C# Scala
Created by JetBrains

JetBrains' Kotlin (2011) — 'pragmatic' Java — added null safety, data classes, coroutines, and kept 100% Java interop. Google made it official for Android in 2017.\n\nIt is the JVM's second language and the pragmatic OO/FP compromise the industry actually adopted.

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Sources

  1. kotlinlang.org/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_(programming_language)