Kotlin
JetBrains' concise, null-safe language for the JVM, the first choice for Android apps. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- JetBrains
- Created by
- Andrey Breslav
- First release
- 2011
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://kotlinlang.org
- Paradigms
- Object-oriented, Functional
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- Yes
- Memory management
- Garbage collected
- Runs as
- Bytecode on a virtual machine
- Main implementation
- Kotlin/JVM, also Native and JS
- Concurrency
- Coroutines
- Null safety
- Yes
- Package manager
- Gradle, Maven
- Used for
- Mobile, Back end
- Specification
- Kotlin Language Specification