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Re:Learning Spring with Kotlin – Sprint 0 by bsder on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @05:18PM (#22871577)
> They got support from Google surprisingly early on in the Android world.

You can thank the Oracle lawsuit for this.

Google has been preparing Kotlin as their escape hatch.

Re:Learning Spring with Kotlin – Sprint 0 by pjmlp on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @02:13AM (#22875084)
So they better get that Kotlin/Native ready, and rewrite all of Maven Central libraries being used in Android in Kotlin/Native.