👉 In the context of programming, "chilkat" is a type of object-oriented software design pattern. It was first introduced by the team at Google in 2005 and has since been adopted by numerous other companies. The chilkat pattern allows developers to create reusable objects that can be used as interfaces between different parts of an application. In this pattern, the chilkat is a type of interface that represents a set of common methods or properties for any object in the application.