Can I use VS Code for Kotlin?

Kotlin Language comes from developer Mathias Fröhlich, providing Kotlin language support for VS Code — basically a syntax highlighter, Code snippeter, Region code folding for the Kotlin language. Fröhlich credits the open source Kotlin Sublime Text 2 Package, so his extension is likely based on that.

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Does Kotlin compile to JVM?

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.

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