Who is the owner of Kotlin?

Kotlin is an open-source statically typed programming language that targets the JVM, Android, JavaScript and Native. It’s developed by JetBrains . The project started in 2010 and was open source from very early on. The first official 1.0 release was in February 2016.

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Why did Google switch to Kotlin?

Have you ever thought how much Google paid to introduce Kotlin into Android? This question usually surprises the developers I talk to about this topic. The answer in most cases is that Google got Kotlin for free because it is released under Apache 2.0 open-source license .

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What is wrong with Kotlin?

I feel like methods coming from nowhere as if I was writing in C are a bad thing for the code I write — at least in object-oriented Kotlin. It lacks of context and namespace (just like static imports, which I also avoid like rats). Extensions over top-level functions, definitely. And don’t go too crazy about them.26 Nis 2019

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