[chwahoo]

I'm surprised you were downvoted. I think this suggestion makes a ton of sense. It's certainly the shortest path to having a significantly improved first-party language for Android and Google does have a working relationship with Jetbrains.

I think it's very unlikely that this is in the works since, if it were, you'd expect Google to have thrown significant weight towards kotlin development (https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/graphs/contributors).