How do I compile Kotlin program?

Compile Kotlin to native executables: hands on experience. Kotlin is becoming the one language you can use in every context: it can be compiled to JVM bytecode and reuse JVM libraries .19 Tem 2017

Create and run an application

Yes, when targeting the JVM, Kotlin is compiled to JVM *. class files , which is a bytecode format that can later be either interpreted by a JVM, or compiled to the machine code by the JVM during the program run (JIT), or even compiled ahead-of-time (AOT) down to the machine code.