Apart from language syntax similarities, Kotlin and Swift are fundamentally different languages, one runs on a VM (ok there's KNative) and other runs on bare me

Apart from language syntax similarities, Kotlin and Swift are fundamentally different languages, one runs on a VM (ok there's KNative) and other runs on bare metal. Kotlin has it's roots in JVM and the early language design choices clearly reflect that. Kotlin/Native will find it very hard to break free of it's JVM counterpart because it can't diverge too much from it to maintain compatibility.