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Kotlin 1.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the nice-steaming-cup-of-kotlin dept.

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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  1. Not a VM by pchasco · · Score: 5, Informative

    Kotlin is yet another language to be run in the JVM. It is not a competitor to the JVM as the description suggests.

  2. Re:This JVM stuff is BS by jdeisenberg · · Score: 5, Informative

    Possible candidate for a counterexample: Clojure (https://clojure.org/). It runs on the JVM, but, as it is a dialect of Lisp, I would not consider it "just syntactic sugar on top of Java"