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Kotlin's Rise on Android
- Kotlin unexpectedly became popular among Android developers after they adopted IntelliJ as the base for Android Studio.
- Many developers were already using Kotlin, leading Google to officially support it.
Evolutionary vs. Revolutionary Languages
- Languages can be categorized as evolutionary (incremental improvements) or revolutionary (fundamental changes).
- Evolutionary languages offer smoother transitions but limit progress, while revolutionary languages offer greater potential but higher adoption barriers.
Java/Kotlin Interoperability
- Google studied the impact of developers working in two languages, finding a productivity hit with Java/C++.
- Surprisingly, there was no productivity drop between Java and Kotlin due to interoperability and similar semantics.