Kotlin 1.0 Released

Qbertino writes: Kotlin, one of the challengers to Java's VM, has been released in version 1. Kotlin is object-oriented, statically typed and comes with professional IDE support by Jetbrains — which is no big surprise, since it's the Jetbrains employees who developed the programming language that saw the light of day four years ago. Kotlin is already in real-world use and development will be moving into fleshing out the Kotlin feature set without breaking backwards compatibility. These features include planned support for JavaScript — which sounds interesting considering JS has gained quite some traction recently. Kotlin is FOSS and is released under the Apache license.

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JVM challenger OR Java challenger on the JVM?

[Anonymous Coward]

Which is it? The summary makes it sound like Kotlin has its own VM (JVM compatible I'd assume) to compete with Oracle's JVM. The web page makes it sound like Kotlin is just a language that compiles to the JVM's bytecode. Which is it? Or is it a both?

Re:Java, utter bloat to sink your boat

[angel'o'sphere]

If c programmers needed that level of support, they'd be told to go back to school and really learn the language.

Code completion is rather useful for libraries. It has obviously nothing to do with "language".

And I rather have my method calls autocompleted, especially when I also autocomplete arguments, than having the compiler give me 25 errors per file I worked on the last hour because I have a typo every where.

There are plenty of reasons why people use auto completion ... "not knowing the language" is very likely the least one.