2011 JetBrains unveiled Kotlin February , 2012 Kotlin was open sourced under Apache 2.0 license May, 2017 Google I/O Kotlin was adopted for Android officially
– side Apps In any framework such as Spring Boot, Vert.X, JSF, Ktor Desktop Applications JavaFX, TornadoFX Web Development Kotlin/JS Android Development Native Development Kotlin/native library
of professional Android developers now use Kotlin, its been one of the most-loved languages two years running on Stack Overflow , and one of the fastest-growing on Github in number of contributors Read More: Android Developers Blog
project’s faster - less boilerplate, less code more Improve the quality of built apps results, code looks clean Can be used with existing Java libraries Officially supported by Google for Android development Many resources for building your skills Kotlin on stage at Google I/O 2018