[GTP]

I agree this is not a good strategy, but I found it curious that Kotlin seems to have stalled and maybe is even declining. After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be. The article also mentions the existence of better alternatives in the form of some other languages' cross-platform frameworks, but doesn't make any concrete example. Anyone has ideas on which frameworks those could be? Btw, Kotlin isn't platform-specific as they seems to say in the article, it's cross-platform as well.

[fgeiger]

> After all, it really seems what many developers would like Java to be.

As a backend Kotlin developer, I wonder if a lot of the advantages that Kotlin used to have over Java are rendered moot by new features in recent versions of Java.

[karmakaze]

It may not be that Kotlin is declining in general but rather mobile development using it (and Swift) is declining which is the dominant case. If we could see non-mobile Kotlin use that would be an interesting trend to see. I imagine some of the adoption and familiarity could carry over to backend uses.

[Ragnarork]

> Anyone has ideas on which frameworks those could be?

I would imagine stuff like ReactNative for example, which lets you write JS for mobile apps in a platform-agnostic manner.