History

• It all started in 2011 with the company JetBrains. (Beginning)

  • JetBrains is the same company that developed IntelliJ (with 100% support for Kotlin).

• In 2016, version 1.0 was released.

• In 2017, Google added official support for Android development using Kotlin.

• In addition to Java, it became possible to use Kotlin.

  • In 2019, Google announced that Kotlin had become the preferred language for Android development.

  • Kotlin > Java (which means it's recent compared to the timeline of these notes here on GitHub Issues); ...

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Today, Kotlin is increasingly gaining ground in the backend world.

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