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title: Kotlin
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**What is Kotlin?**
# Kotlin
<a href='https://kotlinlang.org/'>Kotlin</a> is a programming language developed by <a href='https://www.jetbrains.com'>Jetbrains</a>, the company behind some of the world's most popular IDEs like <a href='https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/'>IntelliJ</a> and <a href='https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/'>Pycharm</a>.
## 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/).
The developer community has embraced Kotlin to such an extent that Google announced first class support for the language for Android Development at <a href='https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/'>Google I/O 2017</a>.
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 <a href='https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/'>Google I/O 2017</a>.
## Version
As of this writing, the latest stable release of Kotlin happens to be <a href='https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/09/kotlin-1-2-70-is-out/'>version 1.2.71</a>