Designed by | JetBrains |
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Developer | JetBrains |
Platform | Java Virtual Machine |
OS | any JVM supported |
License | Apache 2 |
Website | http://www.jetbrains.com/kotlin/ |
Influenced by | |
Java, Scala, Groovy, Gosu |
Kotlin is a statically-typed
programming language that runs on the
JVM. It is currently in development by
JetBrains.
In July 19 2011 JetBrains unveiled project Kotlin as a new Statically Typed, Object Oriented Programming Language for JVM. [1]
Main goal of Kotlin is to provide better support for new language features that are missing in Java, basically making it a more powerful and compact language [2] and still being able to have all the IDE support like navigation and refactoring.