Re:Why Kotlin is my next programming language (2015)
by kmiroslav on Sunday June 19, 2016 @07:31AM
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The Android community has already adopted it pretty significantly (join the #android Kotlin slack and see for yourself).
And this was done without any official support for Google because... it's not necessary: Kotlin works out of the box. Which is one of Kotlin's strengths.
Re:Why Kotlin is my next programming language (2015)
by on_and_off on Sunday June 19, 2016 @09:15AM
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I am in that slack channel.
Do you have any adoption numbers though ? From what I see in the local companies, kotlin is still very rare, except for a couple of startups (which makes them very attractive tbh). That anecdotal evidence of course and I would love to see a tide change but hard numbers would be an huge help.
I fear it might be very hard to make the Android community adopt it massively though, unless Google pitches in and supports it officially.