Kotlin has been designed based on decades of experience from working with Java and other programming languages. By building on this experience, JetBrains has worked to improve the developer experience with Kotlin by focusing on things such as first-class tooling support from day one, fast build times, and bringing modern features and best practices to the language design.
Designing Kotlin with best practices in mind
Learning from Java
Kotlin is 100% compatible with Java through the bytecode that allows both to target the JVM. Kotlin's origin stems from wanting modern language features and compile speeds that other JVM languages couldn't provide. Because of these, Kotlin is heavily influenced by Java, but can improve...