From a5440b7ff353402888742d44ac2a692c6c74a856 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bennett Garner <34491412+bennett39@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:04:39 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add links, correct dates, format, & fix spelling (#20500)
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diff --git a/guide/english/kotlin/index.md b/guide/english/kotlin/index.md
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--- a/guide/english/kotlin/index.md
+++ b/guide/english/kotlin/index.md
@@ -4,13 +4,12 @@ title: Kotlin
**What is Kotlin?**
-Kotlin is a programming language developed by Jetbrains, the company behind some of the world's most popular IDEs like IntelliJ and Pycharm.
+Kotlin is a programming language developed by Jetbrains, the company behind some of the world's most popular IDEs like IntelliJ and Pycharm.
- It serves as a replacement for Java and runs on the JVM. It has been in development for close to 6 years and it hit 1.0 just a year ago.
+ 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.
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
@@ -24,11 +23,11 @@ Kotlin works with **JDK 1.6+** so make sure you get the correct version installe
* ## IntelliJ IDEA
-The quickest way to get Kotlin running on your machines is by using it alongside **IntelliJ IDEA**. This is the recommended IDE for Kotlin because of the tooling support that is provided by Jetbrains. You can grab the Community Edition of IntelliJ from JetBrains.
+The quickest way to get Kotlin running on your machine is using it alongside the **IntelliJ IDEA** IDE. This is the recommended IDE for Kotlin because of the tooling support that is provided by Jetbrains. You can grab the Community Edition of IntelliJ from JetBrains.
-Once you have installed IntelliJ you can basically get started with your first project in Kotlin without any further configurations.
+Once you have installed IntelliJ, you can get started with your first project in Kotlin without any further configurations.
-Create a **New Project** and make sure you select the Java Module. Select the Kotlin checkbox on that screen
+Create a **New Project** and make sure you select the Java Module. Select the Kotlin checkbox on that screen.

@@ -45,7 +44,7 @@ In order to verify your installation, create a new Kotlin file in the **src** fo

-Once you have the file created, type out the following cremonial Hello World code. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense right away, it will be dealt with in detail later on in the guide.
+Once you have the file created, type out the following ceremonial Hello World code. Don't worry if it doesn't make sense right away, it will be dealt with in detail later on in the guide.
```
fun main (args: Array) {
@@ -114,7 +113,6 @@ If you are someone who prefers doing things in a more manual way and do not want
With every release of Kotlin, Jetbrains ship a standalone compiler which can be downloaded from the GitHub releases. Version 1.1.51 happens to be the latest at the time of this writing.
-
**Manual Installation**