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Re:Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app... by amanzi on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @03:50AM (#19856740)
> ...great, Kotlin for Android, Dart for Flutter, on the ML side they're starting to adopt Swift, for networking infra code Go.

Don't forget HTML+JS+CSS for websites and PWAs. And given that web technologies work across all platforms, perhaps that's the area for developers to keep focusing on.

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Re:Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app... by gridlockd on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @05:17AM (#19857160)
> And given that web technologies work across all platforms...

This is a myth. Web technology is more "Write Once, Debug Everywhere(tm)" than Java ever was. The real value is in deployment, bypassing all the platform bullshit. It's still a severely limited platform and will probably remain so, because Apple has no interest in giving up its walled garden.

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