How did they come up with the name Kotlin by the way?

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[Law Gimenez]

How did they come up with the name Kotlin by the way?

[streetsofboston]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kotlin_Island

[streetsofboston]

Java and Kotlin are both islands 🙂 K ☕

[Law Gimenez]

Wow thanks!

[streetsofboston]

Note that there is also a ketchup brand called Kotlin, but that not why Kotlin is named that way 🙂

[Nir]

i believe that brand is Polish though, right?

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Hmm, why making KMM its own thing with KMP already existing?

[Andrzej]

@Nir Yep, that ketchup brand is Polish, named after village where it's produced

[Marc Reichelt]

Meanwhile, the Kotlin ketchup owners…

https://media.giphy.com/media/SsTcO55LJDBsI/giphy.gif▾

[streetsofboston]

@Holger Steinhauer [Mod] KMM: The last M stands for Mobile. KMP is for all platforms.
It seems to me that KMP > KMM.

[Holger Steinhauer [Mod]]

Yeah, 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)