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**What is 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 IntelliJ and Pycharm.
<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>.
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 <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>
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* ## 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 <a href='http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html'>Community Edition</a> of IntelliJ from <a href='https://www.jetbrains.com'>JetBrains</a>.
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 <a href='http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html'>Community Edition</a> 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.
![new project screen](https://kotlinlang.org/assets/images/tutorials/getting-started/new_project_step1.png)
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![project structure ](https://kotlinlang.org/assets/images/tutorials/getting-started/new_file.png)
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<String>) {
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With every release of Kotlin, Jetbrains ship a standalone compiler which can be downloaded from the <a href='https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/releases/tag/v1.1.51'>GitHub releases</a>. Version 1.1.51 happens to be the latest at the time of this writing.
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**Manual Installation**