You mean in comparison to Rust which is trending all the time? If we look back on comments for the last 30 days, Kotlin gets mentioned a lot, https://hn.algoli

You mean in comparison to Rust which is trending all the time? If we look back on comments for the last 30 days, Kotlin gets mentioned a lot, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=true&query=Kotlin&sort=byPopularity&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr... I think the issue is as you say, Kotlin is limited to a specific domain mostly. And I would also say that perhaps most people working with Kotlin are doing it for specific companies and aren’t as popular as Rust which is being used to port everything to it.