[sjellis]

I actually clicked on the link with the faint hope that there would be something in the announcement about Kotlin.

Google support for Kotlin, or some initiative to get a grip on security updates are the only announcements that I really want to see about Android at this point: I use an Android phone, but there's no end-user things that I feel that it lacks right now. IMO, the significant weaknesses of the platform are updates and developer experience.

[izacus]

Why would Google have to announce anything about Kotlin? Do you wait For Apple to announce something about Python before using it on your mac?

(We're running Kotlin in production for a long while now and at this point I think starting development of an app in Java is rather silly considering how stable and nice Kotlin is.)

[pjmlp]

Our customers do, if it isn't a vendor supported language on platform X, usually their IT doesn't allow it on their list of languages for project delivery.

[oblio]

Are they the kind of folks that demand that you use .NET or C++ on Windows? I had a colleague like that. I had to explain to him that people are actually using Java or Python in production, on Windows.

[pjmlp]

Depends on the customer, but yes that is usually the case.

[geodel]

Exactly right. Only in La La Land Google would ignore their own languages like Dart and Go and go on to officially support some random JVM language.

[agildehaus]

I'm unable to convince my employer to use Kotlin. Having Google put their weight behind it would tremendously help that situation.