> As for Kotlin, it remains to be seen how much uptake it will actually take. Kotlin is a language made by JetBrains which happens to be the creator of the off

> As for Kotlin, it remains to be seen how much uptake it will actually take. Kotlin is a language made by JetBrains which happens to be the creator of the official Android IDE. So yes the push will be strong from both Google and JetBrains. Java was a bit more modern than Objective-C but if I see what our junior Android dev has to type and type and type and type in Java to do the same as I do in Swift....kids get bored quick you know... > Despite all attempts from Apple to push Swift, many keep on using Objective-C. I don't encounter many during my job as an iOS developer. I encounter people maintaining an existing Objective-C codebase that isn't worth switching and adding 10MB of application weight for Swift. I guess for all green fields projects 80% is Swift. There's just no reason to use Objective-C anymore since Swift 3 so the only people that choose it are: a) People interfacing with C / C++ a lot b) People creating a framework that needs to play nice with both c) People stuck in old ways