Again, I would put it very differently. Despite having a fraction of the audience and resources of a multi-trillion-dollar company, and despite a long list of c

Again, I would put it very differently. Despite having a fraction of the audience and resources of a multi-trillion-dollar company, and despite a long list of competing languages, JetBrains had the foresight to invest and innovate in the language design space. I think it's a testament to Kotlin's ergonomics, unrivaled tooling-support and interoperability with Java's ecosystem that it became so widely popular among the Android community. Amidst Kotlin's growing popularity and mounting legal pressure from Oracle, Google realized they could no longer ignore it and finally adopted their Kotlin-first strategy in 2019. [1] [1]: https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first https://developer.android.com/kotlin/first