Software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o. today announced the milestone release of Kotlin 2.0, a major update to the programming language used on Android and for multiplatform development.

The update adds Java 26 support for Kotlin/JVM, enables incremental compilation by default for Kotlin/Wasm, and expands Kotlin's ability to target modern web and native platforms.

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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 JetBrains, ...

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Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action. The already ...

At the latest Google I/O conference, Google announced that Android Studio would soon support development with Kotlin out of the box. While this was big news, it may have left some people a little cold ...

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites. Kotlin is popular among developers — in fact, it’s the fourth “most loved” ...

You'll find millions of apps in the Google Play store, many of them written using the powerful, stable, workhorse programming language Java. If it were a car, Java would feature a fast, reliable ...