Software development tools company JetBrains s.r.o. today announced the milestone release of Kotlin 2.0, a major update to the programming language used on Android and for multiplatform development.

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...

JetBrains has released a stable version of its Kotlin Multiplatform technology for sharing code among iOS, Android, desktop, web, and other platforms, the company said on November 1. Leveraging the ...

Six months after Kotlin 2.0, Kotlin 2.10 has now been released as the first minor release, which expands the K2 compiler, among other things. There is also a direct connection to Apple's Swift, and ...

Scripting functionality in Kotlin did not prove as popular as JetBrains expected, the company said. But Gradle Kotlin DSL and the Custom Scripting API will continue to be supported. JetBrains plans to ...