Kotlin is the best funny addictive and simple lang...

# announcements

[Ananiya]

Kotlin is the best funny addictive and simple languages I ever seen I ❤️ K but
Who does invented the kotlin (the people) not a company (JetBrains)

[Matteo Mirk]

What do you mean? Kotlin was invented and developed by people in JetBrains…
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2015/11/the-kotlin-language-1-0-beta-is-here/

[Sandesh Baliga]

I guess the question is about who were the people behind the core team

[Ananiya]

i know jetbrains invented the kotlin but my question was the people behind jetbrains as @Sandesh Baliga

[Matteo Mirk]

@abreslav was the lead dev, maybe he can tell you who were the others involved 🙂

[Ananiya]

thanks!

[abreslav]

I can’t list all the people who contributed to the design, it would be too many. I and Maxim Shafirov (the present CEO of JetBrains) did the bulk of the initial design back in 2010-11, and then there were very many ideas from various people. I lead all the language design efforts ever since, this does not include libraries. Roman Elizarov is leading the entire coroutines effort, he also suggested to add null-safety to Kotlin at the very early stage, even before joining the team. Ilya Ryzhenkov, Dmitry Jemerov and later Stanislav Erokhin participated in a lot of design discussions for 1.0. It’s many more people who were involved at various stages, and I’m afraid I’ve forgotten someone who made a big contribution. Apologies in advance.

[Ananiya]

@abreslav wow your job is amazing , kotlin is not just language is the way of inspiration. i have tested many languages but i have never seen this kind of flexible , easy to understand , funny and addictive language.i cannot describe how helpful it is wow!! thanks!

[abreslav]

Thanks for your kind words

[Matteo Mirk]

I agree with Ananiya, Kotlin is really a pleasure to use! I’ve been programming for work for 15 years now, and used many languages, and previously the only one that gave me the same feeling was Python.