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Just to clarify Google's choice of Kotlin -- the maker of their IDE invented and did all of the heavy lifting with Kotlin, including building the JVM targeting
by endorphone 7y ago
Just to clarify Google's choice of Kotlin -- the maker of their IDE invented and did all of the heavy lifting with Kotlin, including building the JVM targeting compiler, and the IDE to develop it in (which is the foundation of Android Studio). Adopting Kotlin was very close to free for Android, and was really just rubber stamping what a lot of developers were doing regardless.
- m_ke 7y agoFrom what I remember Kotlin came to Android before Google embraced Jetbrains and Android Studio.
- endorphone 7y agoMay 2013 - https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-the-base-for-android-studio-the-new-ide-for-android-developers/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/05/15/intellij-idea-is-... May 2017 - https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15654988/google-jet-brains-kotlin-programming-language-android-development-io-2017 https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/17/15654988/google-jet-brain... You could use Kotlin for years before Google officially endorsed it...given that Android Studio is made by JetBrains and they made it trivial to use. JetBrains did 100% of the heavy lifting, and Google just conceded eventually.
- skohan 7y agoJetBrains is a plague on mobile development. Their current business model appears to be selling workflows which are totally dependent on their proprietary tooling, and make over-complex monstrosities of mobile applications