On July 19, 2011, at the JVM Language Summit, JetBrains announced Kotlin – a new statically typed programming language for the JVM.
It has been here for almost ten years. Since its conception, it's been changing the way we work at JetBrains and beyond.
Now it’s time to celebrate all the time we've spent together, and share our plans so we can continue helping you become happier developers.
Kotlin has evolved from a Java alternative to a whole ecosystem that allows writing code for different purposes, including server-side, mobile, web frontend, data science, and even