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Re:New language features since Java 8 to 17 by RhodesianHunter on Sunday October 24, 2021 @10:47PM (#28984028)
Kotlin is in frequent use on the backend in many places, including Amazon and Google.
Re:New language features since Java 8 to 17 by pjmlp on Monday October 25, 2021 @03:53AM (#28985405)
Just like any JVM guest language since Beanshell, and all lumped together are a tiny dot on JVM deployment world wide.

Google is Kotlin's godfather, naturally they are using it, just like Amazon with their own Android flavour.