Off topic but Java has a nice history page on wiki...

# language-evolution

[jNayden]

Off topic but Java has a nice history page on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history is there something similar for kotlin ?

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Java seems to be one of very few languages that have a Wikipedia version history page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=version+history&title=Special%3ASearch&ns0=1

[jNayden]

indeed but its super handy ... usually official documentations are no where to be found mostly because documentation ppl are leaving the company or websites/dev portals restructuring and so on ... and learning from blogs of someone is never perfect and leaves a lot to be desired.

I believe it is good if kotlin have such page... and it is better to have it earlier than later because the features are adding and yeah.. it will be harder to track what went where.

Also the versioning wiki page in Java I use often in presentations to hype for the language to see what has been added in an year back in the day, just in an year or how early it was and so on...

[Klitos Kyriacou]

The official Releases documentation seems to have approximately the same amount of detail for Kotlin versions as the Wikipedia page does for Java.

[jNayden]

the wiki page is better for just scrolling and seeing all language features in the releases of kotlin you do have whats new but its a pretty long document with explanations and details