Kotlin version M1 (0.1.2090) released

Today, the first official “milestone” project from Kotlin, a modern programming language for the Java platform developed by JetBrains, has been released:

• The plugin for IntelliJ IDEA 11.1 can be installed from the central repository ( see here ).
• The compiler can be downloaded here .

The most interesting changes:

• Maven support fixed.
• Appeared KDoc - JavaDoc analogue, with which the generated documentation for the standard library .
• The standard library itself is greatly expanded.
• Annotations, multiline string patterns, local functions, etc. are supported in the language.
• Auto-completion of extension-functions has been added to the IDE and the semantic code highlighting has been significantly expanded.

More information about the release and language changes can be found here and here .

You can learn more about Kotlin:

• On the main page of the project .
• At the JavaOne conference in Moscow on April 18 .
• At a meeting of JUG in St. Petersburg on April 26 .
• At the ADD-3 conference in Moscow on May 12 .

PS Bugs can be written to the tracker , and ideas / comments / suggestions - to the forum .