Etymology

Kotlin

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Today it means: A cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose object-oriented programming language with type inference, designed to interoperate with Java. Full definition →

Russian Ко́тлин
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  1. Russian · borrowed fromКо́тлин
  2. English todayKotlin

Named after Kotlin Island (Russian Ко́тлин (Kótlin)), near St. Petersburg, by analogy to the related language Java, whose name ultimately comes from an Indonesian island.

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