Kotlin
noun · first attested 2011
Named after an island on purpose, because Java is an island too.
A programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine and is the preferred language for Android development.
60.0125°N 29.7336°E · Q819457
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 2011
- Part of speech
- noun
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Kotlin Island
- In English
Kotlin
JetBrains unveiled Kotlin in July 2011 and named it after Kotlin Island in the Gulf of Finland, about twenty miles west of the company's Saint Petersburg office and the site of the naval town of Kronstadt. The choice deliberately echoed Java, itself named after the Indonesian island by way of coffee. Google made Kotlin an officially supported Android language in 2017 and the preferred one in 2019.