kotlin

A programming language very like java.

Installation

This is not as easy as it seems, the first 4 attempt just did not get me a working compiler in the PATH, and i don't want an install that has to add to PATH unless absolutely necessary.

This one seems to do the trick : sdkman.

install kotlin
1 2 3 4	`wget -O sdk.install.sh "https://get.sdkman.io" bash sdk.install.sh source ~/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh sdk install kotlin`

The first two lines are for when you don't have sdkman yet. The 3rd line is actually what i needed when i already had sdk installed.

run
1 2	`kotlinc hello.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar java -jar hello.jar`

So kotlin produces actual java code, neat.