ReactNative isn’t exactly native, and the patent situation isn’t ideal either.

Kotlin is a language that is like a "better Java", just like C# is a better Java.

It happens to provide extension methods, it allows easy creation of domain specific languages, it fixes the Billion Dollar Mistake (no more problems with null!), etc. It’s basically Java, without all the boilerplate, and a lot more modern.

Which means any Android dev can easily use it, and be more productive, and create less bugs.

Judging by your downvotes I guess it is just Google PR out in full force the last couple of days.

It's jetbrains' PR now added with Google.

Google employees can destroy any post on reddit. Jetbrains copied that model. Anything about Jetbrains will have tons of artificial posts at the top, their crew upvoting it.

It's useless this sort of thing is killing social media completely.

WTF is kotlin and why would anyone in their right minds use a language from a text editor company. Beats me.

By the way, prepare for downvotes. This is a throwaway account. Jetbrains has all their employees and maybe even external marketing firms in these promotional posts. Especially on Reddit /r/programming my goodness they are obnoxious with their downvote brigades.

It's a language created by Jetbrains and they have all their employees heavily brigade promote stuff about Jetbrains on social media.

They also probably have an enormous team manipulating Reddit and hackernews votes (perhaps they run a internal email for everyone to vote and comment).

Kotlin is an unneeded solution to an inexistent problem. A language in no way comparable to Scala or Java. If you adopt it in your project you'll be in deep shit a couple years from now.