From 2f8299e9035ebb85a85594f5fd00be4b31e7727d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sunny Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:36:27 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Added type of Kotlin language in its definition. (#27010) --- guide/english/kotlin/index.md | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/guide/english/kotlin/index.md b/guide/english/kotlin/index.md index bc11a45231..498eb9f5d2 100644 --- a/guide/english/kotlin/index.md +++ b/guide/english/kotlin/index.md @@ -2,13 +2,15 @@ title: Kotlin --- -**What is Kotlin?** +# Kotlin -Kotlin is a programming language developed by Jetbrains, the company behind some of the world's most popular IDEs like IntelliJ and Pycharm. +## What is Kotlin? - It serves as a replacement for Java and runs on the JVM. It has been in development since 2011 and version 1.0 was released in August 2016. +[Kotlin](https://kotlinlang.org/) is a [statically typed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Static_type_checking) programming language developed by [Jetbrains](https://www.jetbrains.com), the company behind some of the world's most popular IDEs like [IntelliJ](https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/) and [Pycharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/). + +Kotlin serves as a replacement for Java and runs on the JVM. It has been in development since 2011 and version 1.0 was released in August 2016. - The developer community has embraced Kotlin to such an extent that Google announced first class support for the language for Android Development at Google I/O 2017. +The developer community has embraced Kotlin to such an extent that Google announced first class support for the language for Android Development at Google I/O 2017. ## Version As of this writing, the latest stable release of Kotlin happens to be version 1.2.71