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Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
by debok 3y ago
Why would Kotlin be named after Kotlin Island? What's the connection?
- p4bl0 3y agoIt targets the JVM. Java is also an island. Maybe that's it?
- geminger 3y agoAlso the three founders of JetBrains, the developers of Kotlin, all graduated from St. Petersburg State University.
- arrowsmith 3y agoKotlin runs on the Java virtual machine, Java is an island, they picked another island.
- sesm 3y agoIn early 2010s Java was widely used but the language and ecosystem was stagnating. This lead to an explosion of alternative JVM languages: Groovy, Scala, Clojure, etc. But most people didn't want an entirely new language, all they wanted was basically 'Java with lambdas'. One such language was Ceylon, and Jetbrains (after unsuccessfully trying Groovy) decided to create their own Ceylon and called it Kotlin.
- lordnacho 3y agoIt's a less verbose island
- negus 3y agoBecause early JetBrains development was based mainly in Saint Petersburg.
- pimlottc 3y agoIt’s definitely more interesting to know /who/ named something and /why/, not just /what/ it’s named after.