The Kotlin Language: 1.0 Beta is Here!
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Kotlin was conceived in 2010. Ten years of Java development led us to feeling that our productivity at JetBrains could be improved significantly by using a modern JVM language alongside Java. Having evaluated other available options, we decided that a new language was needed there, and we had the expertise and resources to create such a language.
Another programming language. That doesn't confuse things...
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Kotlin was conceived in 2010. Ten years of Java development led us to feeling that our productivity at JetBrains could be improved significantly by using a modern JVM language alongside Java. Having evaluated other available options, we decided that a new language was needed there, and we had the expertise and resources to create such a language.
Another programming language. That doesn't confuse things...
> First off, our projects live long and grow really big (many millions of lines of code), so we needed static typing to be able to reason precisely about huge codebases and maintain them over the years. Oooh, I love the low blow to Ruby and their ilk. Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!