I spent some time looking at a relatively unknown programming language called Kotlin today. Kotlin was designed by a company rather than by academics in a computer science department. The company happens to make and sell an IDE so perhaps they are hoping that as the language becomes more popular and programmers need an IDE to use it they will become customers of JetBrains, the company behind Kotlin.
The basic description of the language goes like this: Kotlin is a statically-typed programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine
Kotlin is yet another language that...