How did they come up with the name Kotlin by the w...
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Law Gimenez
10/12/2020, 2:19 PMHow did they come up with the name Kotlin by the way?
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streetsofboston
10/12/2020, 2:20 PMstreetsofboston
10/12/2020, 2:21 PMJava and Kotlin are both islands 🙂 K ☕
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Law Gimenez
10/12/2020, 2:22 PMWow thanks!
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streetsofboston
10/12/2020, 2:23 PMNote that there is also a ketchup brand called Kotlin, but that not why Kotlin is named that way 🙂
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Nir
10/12/2020, 2:28 PMi believe that brand is Polish though, right?
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Holger Steinhauer [Mod]
10/12/2020, 2:30 PMHmm, why making KMM its own thing with KMP already existing?
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Andrzej
10/12/2020, 3:41 PM@Nir Yep, that ketchup brand is Polish, named after village where it's produced
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Marc Reichelt
10/13/2020, 1:13 PMMeanwhile, the Kotlin ketchup owners…
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streetsofboston
10/13/2020, 1:31 PM@Holger Steinhauer [Mod] KMM: The last M stands for Mobile. KMP is for all platforms.
It seems to me that KMP > KMM.
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Holger Steinhauer [Mod]
10/13/2020, 3:28 PMYeah, I am still not sure why we need both - I would see KMM as a specialised use case of KMP (or MPP, which is the official abbr. I think)
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