Kotlin From CLI

Resources

Hello World from the CLI

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

kotlinc greeting.kt hello.kt -include-runtime -d hello.jar
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Running

java -jar hello.jar
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Running a task

Find Kotlin path with which kotlin.

export PATH=$PATH:/path/from/which/kotlin
function kotlinr() {
  echo Compiling, please wait...
  kotlinc $1 -include-runtime -d out.jar
  java -jar out.jar
}
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After sourcing, you could now run kotlinr hello.kt.