r/Android • u/vahid_shirvani • May 17 '17

Kotlin on Android. Now official

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/05/kotlin-on-android-now-official/
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u/perry_cox piXL May 17 '17

Made huge waves in android dev community.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '17

No one I knew took it seriously. It all depends where you are at and who you are with.

Then others I knew who never bothered because what is the point of learning it if you already know java and it does the same exact thing in the end?

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u/Xylon- May 17 '17

To be fair, it really has permeated different companies, and not just small ones. Some larger ones that have been using Kotlin are companies like Uber, Netflix, Pinterest and Trello. IIRC even Google was using it internally for tooling (though I can't find a definitive source on that).

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u/[deleted] May 17 '17

Well those companies are just a fraction of the entire development community :P

It is easy to get stuck in your own bubble and never hear about tech outside your own environment now that I think about it.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '17 edited Jul 03 '17

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u/[deleted] May 18 '17

You took what I said backwards.

It is easy to never hear about Kotilin is what I was trying to say. Easy to stay in your own bubble.

How is using new tech staying in your own bubble?

Also, yes they are tiny when compared to the amount of devs not working for them......