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Re:From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin by commitpizza on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @12:13PM (#33332577)
This kind of happened to Groovy, but I think Kotlin was the killer in that case.
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Re:From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin by JAlexoid on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @01:31PM (#33333636)
Groovy was too much of a "scripting feel" to it, maybe because the primary project was Gradle.

Scala had a massive much more prominent project to rely on - Spark.

Kotlin is getting traction because of Android.

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Re:From zero to 10M lines of Kotlin by RhodesianHunter on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @02:38PM (#33334522)
> Kotlin is getting traction because of Android.

Kotlin is seeing major adoption on the server.

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