Too Long; Didn't Read
In the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/android" target="_blank">Android</a> world <a href="http://kotlinlang.org" target="_blank">Kotlin</a> seems to be everywhere. It’s hard to go to a conference or read a blog about Android without Kotlin being mentioned. I remember that at last year’s Droidcon Berlin, most people I talked to already started using Kotlin in production (two months later I published my first app update including Kotlin myself). And indeed, Kotlin made a much bigger impact in the Android community than in the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/java" target="_blank">Java</a> community. I’m sure even JetBrains were surprised at this. <br>But it makes sense: Since the beginning of Android, we developers have been stuck with a dated version of a dated language, while other platforms and languages evolved. Kotlin made us competitive again.