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First thanks for your excellent products. JetBrains rocks and i bought 2 ides from your business.

Now my question :

Why didnt you chose an existing language like Dart for instance?which would have been closer to java and still compile down to javascript. I think dart on the jvm would be a great idea.



Thank you.

Regarding Dart, AFAIK, we started working on Kotlin before Dart and Kotlin was first focused exclusively to target the JVM. The JavaScript came afterwards.


If I'm not mistaken, Kotlin predates Dart...




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