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The Kotlin Programming Language.

38 mentions on Hacker News by 34 people: 11 stories, 27 comments · first 2014-06-04 · latest 2025-12-20

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  1. The Kotlin functions are actually quite easy to write, they're all written in standard Kotlin. also: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/2.3.0/libraries/std... apply: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/2.3.0/libraries/std...…
    comment by jeroenhd · 2025-12-20 · in Rust's Block Pattern
  2. Yup. I tried to find something in this 120 KB file today on Safari on a M3: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/compiler/fro... Slow as hell and the Safari search function stopped working. I loaded the same url on Firefox and…
    comment by p2detar · 2025-08-27 · in The GitHub website is slow on Safari
  3. I've never heard of language lock in. The source is here: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin Come in; the water is fine.
    comment by esafak · 2025-07-24 · in Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin
  4. How’s Apache 2? https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
    comment by t-writescode · 2024-12-23 · in Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
  5. …to do with it was just adopting their language. Same story for Gradle choosing it over Groovy 1: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-10-29 · in We're forking Flutter
  6. See also https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases
    comment by lichtenberger · 2024-05-21 · in Kotlin 2.0 Released
  7. ▲ 3
    Kotlin 2.0 Released
    story by ArturSkowronski · 2024-05-21 · 0 comments
  8. ▲ 3
    Kotlin 2.0.0
    story by lichtenberger · 2024-05-21 · 3 comments
  9. ▲ 2
    Kotlin 2.0 RC1
    story by lichtenberger · 2024-04-16 · 0 comments
  10. ▲ 2
    Kotlin 2.0.0 Beta 2
    story by lichtenberger · 2023-12-17 · 0 comments
  11. …special though - it is a very frequent secondary language. In fact, even Kotlin itself uses bash: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/scripts/buil... So sure, replace Java with Kotlin, C++ with Rust, Python with…
    comment by theamk · 2023-09-03 · in The case for Nushell
  12. …inspiring indeed. Have a look at some of the extension functions for the Collections interface: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/libraries/st...
    comment by jillesvangurp · 2023-07-03 · in Fluent: Static Extension Methods for Java
  13. …sense that they are read-only. Adding an element to a Kotlin immutable set copies the whole thing, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/924c28507067cbfbf78... This is not that different from Java unmodifiable. In contrast the Scala…
    comment by xmcqdpt2 · 2023-06-12 · in A compact overview of JDK 21’s “frozen” feature list
  14. …Russian: https://www.linkedin.com/in/relizarov/ Kotlin core contributors seem to be mostly Russian: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors So it definitely isn't a decision what won't have any effect on the company.
    comment by isbvhodnvemrwvn · 2022-03-11 · in JetBrains suspends R&D activities in Russia and sales in Russia and Belarus
  15. …ains.com/kotlin/2012/02/kotlin-goes-open-s... [2]: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34 [3]: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/369b1974782b821e4... [4]: https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/afc81c1855bf711315b8e5...
    comment by bmc7505 · 2021-12-09 · in Apple Open Source
  16. …work on a wasm compiler backend for Kotlin (they already have java, native, and js compilers). https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/compiler/ir/... Interestingly they plan to depend on the wasm GC proposal instead of bundling…
    comment by jillesvangurp · 2020-07-09 · in Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly
  17. ▲ 2
    Kotlin adds support for compiling to WebAssembly
    story by iwillrunoutofsp · 2019-08-26 · 0 comments
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    Kotlin 1.3.30
    story by skinnyasianboi · 2019-04-11 · 0 comments
  19. ▲ 1
    Release 1.2.71
    story by rbanffy · 2018-09-24 · 0 comments
  20. That's because it's a point release. See 1.3-M1: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.3-M1 (blog https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/07/see-whats-coming-i... )
    comment by kodablah · 2018-08-21 · in Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
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    Kotlin 1.2.60 comes with native compiler binaries
    story by dleskov · 2018-08-21 · 67 comments
  22. AFAIK intellij/idea is open source: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
    comment by pirocks · 2018-07-05 · in Rise of Kotlin: A Programming Language for the Next Generation
  23. Link to a changelog https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/1.2.20/ChangeLog.md
    comment by ddon · 2018-01-17 · in Kotlin 1.2.20 released
  24. ▲ 2
    Kotlin 1.2.10
    story by based2 · 2017-12-16 · 0 comments
  25. We've fixed this already; the fix is being deployed. The correct URL is https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2.0
    comment by yole · 2017-11-28 · in Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms
  26. …https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/command-line.html > "We can download it from GitHub Releases." https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.2 404
    comment by igouy · 2017-11-28 · in Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms
  27. …that didn't exist yet. [1] https://github.com/apple/swift/commit/18844bc65229786b96b89a... [2] https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/3e4dce385331c91c9...
    comment by alblue · 2017-05-22 · in Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin
  28. …adoption of a programming language ... just for curiosity, do you still have access to Internet and https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlin ? I have heard that social networks and many other services in Ukraine are prohibited by the government…
    comment by techno_modus · 2017-05-18 · in Swift is like Kotlin
  29. It is open sourced, Apache 2 license https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlin
    comment by AlexeyBrin · 2017-05-18 · in Swift is like Kotlin
  30. Kotlin is open source: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
    comment by kbd · 2017-05-18 · in Swift is like Kotlin
  31. https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors Inside company <30 people working on kotlin that give us more than 100 people outside JetBrains involved in Kotlin development.
    comment by stepango · 2016-11-09 · in Kotlin 1.0.5 is here
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    Kotlin 1.0.0 Release Candidate
    story by Garbage · 2016-02-04 · 0 comments
  33. …It only needs java 1.6, there's a command-line compiler, and its scripts just run some jars: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/build-1.0.0-beta-35...
    comment by hyperpallium · 2015-12-22 · in Kotlin for Android Developers
  34. Maybe. Or maybe not. The data I presented is insufficient. Kotlin initial commit 8 Nov 2010 - https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/commit/369b1974782b821e4... . Note that this does not mean it's the first work done on the project, only the…
    comment by dalke · 2015-11-29 · in Which one invented first: Kotlin or Swift?
  35. …of the string in question. Kotlin developers also didn't feel like your point was too convincing: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/libraries/st...
    comment by justthistime_ · 2015-09-29 · in Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland
  36. …about Kotlin is a bit hard to find — it’s licensed under the GPL-compatible Apache License 2.0: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/master/license/LICE... Now that I know that, Kotlin looks pretty cool! It proposes solutions to a lot…
    comment by kragen · 2015-09-28 · in Kotlin: A New Hope in a Java 6 Wasteland
  37. ▲ 2
    Kotlin M9 released
    story by lauriswtf · 2014-10-16 · 0 comments
  38. …if it were, you'd expect Google to have thrown significant weight towards kotlin development ( https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors ).
    comment by chwahoo · 2014-06-04 · in It's time: bring Dart to Android