Exactly this. So tired of these self-entitled feeling-smart conspiracist unnecessary interpolation of unrelated events, e.g. Oracle lawsuit, Google's agenda bla

Exactly this. So tired of these self-entitled feeling-smart conspiracist unnecessary interpolation of unrelated events, e.g. Oracle lawsuit, Google's agenda blahblah. Kotlin is already popular in Android dev crowd. That is the one and foremost factor that why Google would support it. Because there is already a community and a robust toolchain(Thanks to Jetbrain) over there. It is a low-hanging effort for Google to claim by simply signaling a gesture with very little to commit really.