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by m_ke 2365 days ago
But wasn't open source till the end of 2015 (https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34)

Kotlin was open sourced around 2012 and people were using it in Android apps before Google officially started supporting it in 2016.

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That was the official support from Google. Kotlin had been around for a long time before that. I used to write Android applications using it before Google officially supported it.