Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

Kotlin also provides safer code by being able to take nullable and non-nullable information into the type system and help developers avoid whole crashes, Ng explained.

Since then, Google took this a step further by making Kotlin its preferred language for writing Android apps in 2019 — and while plenty of developers still use Java, Kotlin is quickly becoming ...

Kotlin’s growth doubled each year from 2011 to 2015, when it saw its first massive spike in usage, the report found. That year, Square adopted the language, and many others followed suit.

Others top languages with over one million users include C++, C#, Visual tools, Kotlin, Swift, Go, Ruby, Objective C. Rust is used by 600,000 developers while Lua is used by 500,000 developers.

The Spring team, meanwhile, has supported Kotlin features such as coroutines, Kotlin extensions, and configuration DSLs. So far, 27% of Spring developers have used Kotlin, JetBrains said.

Software Development NewsSD Times news digest: Git 2.28.0, Kotlin 1.4.0-RC, and Digital.ai’s VSM partner program ...

The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from their top 20 positions in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. All three seem to have lost traction and to be in decline ...