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Re:Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin by bitmapbrother on Sunday May 21, 2017 @10:09PM (#14390495)
With Kotlin on the JVM and Kotlin Native on Windows, Mac, Linux and iOS I really don't see much of a future for Swift outside of iOS. Kotlin, though, will be everywhere.
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Re:Google scored points with its community by supporting Kotlin by yoz-y on Monday May 22, 2017 @04:51AM (#14391998)
I think both will find their place. Currently there are many languages that are interchangeable in many cases and yet they find their users.

I suppose that Kotlin outside of JVM has a similar problem to Swift outside an Apple platform. You lose a support for quite a lot of already existing libraries. Rewriting everything in Kotlin and Swift will take effort and by the time we'll get there not many will want to abandon their preferred ecosystem.

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