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+100 to this.

Kotlin is a language by a small company that only grew out of sheer love by the world. Even Google had to throw in the towel and officially support Kotlin. Flutter is a reflection of "creating a new language" - Dart.

Kotlin doesnt have the heavy handed lock-in of Swift. Wouldnt Swift fundamentally by handicapped by Apple's stewardship ? What if Lattner wants to add new constructs to the language ?




Google had no other option given that:

1 - Many InteliJ plugins are now written in Kotlin (Android Studio)

2 - They really screwed up with Android Java dialect and people were looking for alternatives

3 - They need an exit story for when the hammer of justice finaly falls down on how they screwed up Sun




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