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by pjmlp 185 days ago
To me it felt like they were trying to be the next Borland, with Kotlin as their Delphi, except the only reason Kotlin matters is Android.

As proven by their own survey, Kotlin is not taking over the JVM world as many assert,

https://devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com/tools-and-trends

Java 33%, Kotlin 8% as the primary programming language among all existing ones, surveys that focus only on the JVM ecosystem show even smaller percentage for Kotlin.