Long term given the lack of motivation to support modern Java on Android, Kotlin will be tied to Android anyway as it will need to choose how much Java/JVM it can support and still be the Google loved child for future Android development.

Kotlin has many full time paid compiler developers by Google

Do you have a source for this? I develop a plug-in for JetBrains IDEs professionally, I talk a lot to people there and I’ve never heard this.

Hi Colin. What's CursiveIDE made of? It's not written in Clojure, is it?

It's written in a mix of Java (older legacy code), Kotlin (new non-Clojure code) and Clojure.

Just look at the paid members of the kotlin foundation: (Ctrl find Google) https://kotlinlang.org/foundation/kotlin-foundation.html#kot...

https://github.com/jsjeon is probably the most prolific one as I often see him in the commit history.

BTW which plugin are you working on?

But if you look at the contributor history for the repo, he's at #54, just after JetBrains' actual CEO. I don't think you could make the claim that Google contribute significantly to the language itself based off that.

I develop https://cursive-ide.com.