Kotlin has been the fastest-growing language over the past two years, gaining 1.1 million developers, probably because Google made it the preferred language for Android development.

Kotlin is a statically typed language similar to Scala, Gosu, Ceylon, and Fantom, which compiles to both JVM byte code and JavaScript. JetBrains has claimed that Kotlin is more stable at runtime than ...

In May, Kite added JavaScript support, launched a Pro plan with advanced line-of-code completions for Python, and updated its engine to use deep learning, a type of machine learning.