Code Runner's new support for Kotlin was announced in a blog post last week on the Microsoft developer site. "In recent Google I/O 2017, Kotlin has been announced as the [actually, just "a"] official ...

Kotlin scripting enables executing Kotlin code as scripts without prior compilation or packaging into executables. While JetBrains will continue to offer generalized support for scripting in ...

Overall, Kotlin offers several advantages over Java for code to be run on the JVM, and Kotlin can also be used to generate JavaScript and native code. Compared to Java, Kotlin is safer, more ...

To get started with Kotlin, download the Android Studio 3.0 preview, open one of your existing Java files, and then choose “Convert Java File to Kotlin File” in the Code menu.

This might sound like a small thing at first, but the fact that Kotlin code doesn’t require you to end lines with semi-colons means that you will never have to hunt for missing punctuation again!

Kotlin has also helped Google's Home app developers become more productive as it requires much less code compared to the equivalent of existing Java code. Google point's to the use of data classes ...

Developer tools maker JetBrains has released version 1.4 of Kotlin, the increasingly popular programming language promoted by Google for Android app development. While it is popular among Android ...

In Kotlin 2.2, developers can look forward to guard conditions in when-with-subject, multi-dollar interpolation, non-local break and continue, and context parameters.

In Kotlin, like Java, code can be “blocked” together by placing it inside curly brackets. This grouping is useful if we want a specific set of code to run outside of a linear path for example.

Although the first official release of Kotlin came only last year, the language has a history that stretches back to 2010. It was created by a Czech company called JetBrains, which makes software ...