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Eight years after it was released, in 2019, Google finally agreed with Jemerov and most Android developers and announced that Kotlin was the preferred language for Android app development. Kotlin was designed as a replacement for Java on the Android operating system. Jemerov wanted a language that had all the features of more modern programming languages, would run on the JVM, and would compile as fast as Java. Scala, another language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), was close to what he wanted, but it took too long to compile. Kotlin’s creation arose after Lead Developer Dmitry Jemerov sought features he couldn’t find in Java. In this article, we’ll look at why Kotlin became popular, its advantages, and what it’s used for. Since then, it’s become a favorite language for developers and replaced Java in many software projects. Kotlin is a programming language that was released in 2011 by JetBrains, a company that sells integrated development environments (IDEs) for programming languages.
