And instead of keeping the project internal, JetBrains open-sourced the project. JetBrains doesn’t profit directly from Kotlin’s use among developers, but the company hopes to make money off of it through increased interest in their Kotlin -supporting core products.
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Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains , which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.
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