Kotlin was announced in 2011, but the first stable release, version 1.0, didn’t appear until 2016. The language is free and open source, developed by JetBrains with Andrey Breslav serving as its lead ...

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Oracle has released version 15 of Java, the language created 25 years ago by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems, which Oracle snapped up in 2009 for about $7.4bn to gain what it said was the "most ...

The enterprise is developing software in a host of languages these days, with a few commonly recognized coding options including Java, Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Python, Ruby, C++ and Haskell. Along with ...

Scripting functionality in Kotlin did not prove as popular as JetBrains expected, the company said. But Gradle Kotlin DSL and the Custom Scripting API will continue to be supported. JetBrains plans to ...

Without any doubt, Android is the world’s most commonly used mobile operating system. To many, it presents quite an opportunity and a large, lucrative market for app developers. Creating top-notch and ...