The Advent of Kotlin: A Conversation with JetBrains' Andrey Breslav by Janice J. Heiss Published April 2013 Learn about Kotlin, a new statically typed language for the JVM. Among the important Java software developments in recent years is the advent of such alternative languages for the JVM as Groovy, Jython, and JRuby—and, more recently, the rise of Scala. A new statically typed language, Kotlin,