On July 19, 2011, at the JVM Language Summit, JetBrains announced Kotlin – a new statically typed programming language for the JVM. It has bee

Ten Years of Kotlin!

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2021-08-05 21:00:11

On July 19, 2011, at the JVM Language Summit, JetBrains announced Kotlin – a new statically typed programming language for the JVM.

It has been here for almost ten years. Since its conception, it’s been changing the way we work at JetBrains and beyond.

Now it’s time to celebrate all the time we’ve spent together, and share our plans so we can continue helping you become happier developers.

Kotlin has evolved from a Java alternative to a whole ecosystem that allows writing code for different purposes, including server-side, mobile, web frontend, data science, and even multiplatform projects.

We’ve prepared a whole project that starts from the very beginning of Kotlin and takes you through the most important moments all the way to the current state of the technology and our future vision. It’s not just about the technology itself, it’s also about the ideas and people behind Kotlin.

On the website, we’ll take you on a nostalgic walk down memory lane as we explore the syntax changes to Kotlin code through the years. You will also discover the Kotlin of today and our plans for the next ten years!