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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Kotlin/Native compiler, currently in development, generates platform-native binaries from Kotlin code and is interoperable with C functions Kotlin, the JVM-based language from IDE maker ...

Kotlin uses a number of handy tricks and methods to reduce this ‘extra’ code and in doing so, helps users to create apps more quickly and simply. We’ll examine some specific examples in this ...

JetBrains also improved the tooling for Kotlin Multiplatform, a way to reuse code across operating system environments, with a single all-in-one tool built on the Fleet platform.

These backends – Kotlin/JVM and Kotlin/JS – are being migrated to the same internal representation (IR) for Kotlin code as the Kotlin/Native backend is. The outcome is that all three backends ...

Kotliin/Native compiles Kotlin code in native binaries that can run without a virtual machine. Additionally, Kotlin 2.0.0 introduces a default method for generating lambda functions via invokedynamic.

So there you have it. While Kotlin doesn't have as much VS Code support as some other popular languages, you can install extensions to highlight Kotlin syntax and run Kotlin code snippets or files ...

Kotlin is a statically typed language that compiles to both JVM byte code and JavaScript. JetBrains has claimed that Kotlin is more stable at runtime than Java, because it can statically check weak ...