[oscargrouch]

He/she made his/her points of why he/she believe so. I think that this is the important part, because after that anyone can make their own minds about it.

Sure any prediction is pretty difficult to make, but languages can be "cornered" and have a harsh time to grow beyond their original umbrella, if it dont manage to be adopted in other scenarios.

Problem is, in a lot of those scenarios, its already a "blood bath" with several programming languages already doing the same.

We have seen this trend and with this historical knowledge we are free to speculate about its future as if there is no 'black swan' events, which nobody can predict.

We know that any prediction is risky, but it looks to me that he/she at least layed down the foundations of his/her thinking, and i must say it looks good as it matches with the previous experience and patterns over other technologies.

Its too crowded, and a lot of great technology are having a bad time to stay relevant, so no wonder that Kotlin will have a difficult time too. And you dont need to be an oracle to understand that.