The Kotlin language was designed by a team at JetBrains, the company behind popular commercial IDEs and their free community editions. It will not be a surprise that their popular IntelliJ IDEA IDE for JVM software development offers very good built-in Kotlin support. JetBrains, in their quest for widespread use of Kotlin, are also developing a plugin that adds Kotlin compatibility to the Eclipse IDE. We will be using this plugin during this chapter.
Installation couldn't be simpler, as it is available on the Eclipse Marketplace. At the time of writing, the version on the Marketplace was fully up to date with the latest available version on their website. The installation procedure should feel rather familiar by now:
- From the Eclipse IDE's
Help
menu, select theEclipse Marketplace...
option. - Enter
Kotlin
in theFind
field and press Enter. - Look for the
Kotlin Plugin for Eclipse
entry (which credits JetBrains) and...