Hello World in Kotlin

Welcome to the Hello World in Kotlin page! Here, you'll find the source code for this program as well as a description of how the program works.

Current Solution

fun main(args: Array<String>) {
  println("Hello, World!")
}

Hello World in Kotlin was written by:

• Jeremy Griffith

This article was written by:

• Jeremy Grifski
• rzuckerm

If you see anything you'd like to change or update, please consider contributing.

How to Implement the Solution

Let's get down to business, Hello World in Kotlin.

On the first line, we have the package declaration. Like most languages, this basically declares the package or module name of this file. If anyone needed to use a function in this file, they could access it via the package name.

Next, we have the function definition. In this first line, we can see we define the main function which receives an array of Strings as input. In a lot of languages, types are declared in type-var order, not in Kotlin. In Kotlin, we declare the variable name before giving it a type.

Finally, we print Hello World in Kotlin. Like many languages, we use a simple call to the println function, so no surprises there.

How to Run the Solution

At this point, we probably want to actually run the Hello World in Kotlin code snippet. Perhaps the easiest way to do so is to leverage the online Kotlin editor.

Alternatively, we can use the latest standalone compiler. Of course, we'll want to get a copy of Hello World in Kotlin while we're at it. With both in hand, all we need to do is navigate to the folder containing our files and run the following:

kotlinc HelloWorld.kt -include-runtime -d HelloWorld.jar
java -jar HelloWorld.jar

The standalone Kotlin compiler compiles Kotlin down to a runnable Java Archive (jar) which we can then execute using the Java Runtime Environment.