What is Kotlin Programming Language? [Video]

Kotlin has emerged as a popular programming language for native Android development. Its characteristics, advantages, and utilities are as follows:

A Brief Introduction

Kotlin is a general-purpose programming language. It’s statically typed with type inference. Kotlin is free and open-source. This modern programming language supports both object-oriented programming and functional programming.

JetBrains, the company that created IntelliJ IDEA, the popular IDE, developed Kotlin in 2010. The company first launched Kotlin in 2011. Kotlin is an open-source project since 2012.

The creators of Kotlin designed it to be fully interoperable with Java. Kotlin initially targeted JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and Android. You can now use it for Windows, Linux, iOS, macOS, watchOS, and other operating systems too.