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I see people claim this frequently that Kotlin is used a lot on the backend, but there’s very little evidence that this is true. I absolutely will concede that
by lockhouse 3y ago
I see people claim this frequently that Kotlin is used a lot on the backend, but there’s very little evidence that this is true.
I absolutely will concede that Swift is in practice an Apple only language, but I feel Kotlin is essentially an Android only language in practice as well.
- jitl 3y agoWe had a bunch of Kotlin on the server at Airbnb in 2018.
- tadfisher 3y agoNope, Kotlin is plenty popular on backend, so much so it's mundane to see it in popular frameworks like Spring and Play. It helps that it's designed to coexist with Java.
- pjmlp 3y agoIt is almost meaningless, about 10% if at all.
- winrid 3y agoDoorDash moved their python backend to kotlin afaik