| ▲ | eitland 2 days ago |
| > Now they are stuck with Kotlin being seen as an Android language for the most part Perhaps it’s different elsewhere, but here in Norway I’ve seen Kotlin used quite extensively in large backend codebases. It also comes up frequently in job postings—employers seem to actively ask for it when hiring. |
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| ▲ | gavinray a day ago | parent | next [-] |
| Also at a company where I write backend Kotlin and we don't have any mobile apps or any other JVM products at all. We wanted the JVM for the JDBC ecosystem due to being a data tool, and Kotlin seemed like the "least bad" flavor. No regrets. |
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| ▲ | Tainnor 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Same in Germany, there are a lot of major companies using Kotlin for backend code. |
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| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It is certainly different, given that Kotlin is about 10% of the JVM market. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=java,kotlin,scala... https://senacor.blog/in-praise-of-kotlin-a-modern-programmin... Most shops that use Kotlin on the backend also do Android development, as means to do core sharing between backend and Android, and there is the whole ART is not a JVM implementation anyway. |
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| ▲ | distances 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | I have never seen Kotlin code sharing between Android and backend, it never was even remotely a topic in my client projects that used Kotlin for both. | |
| ▲ | Tainnor 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > Most shops that use Kotlin on the backend also do Android development, as means to do core sharing between backend and Android None of the companies that I wrote Kotlin for or that I applied to used Kotlin for code sharing between backend and Android. It seems as if you're making a lot of assumptions in this comment thread. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Doesn't change the size of the market share anyway, an assumption done on links I shared, because this is the Internet and we have to prove every little word we write. Can share more market research reports if you feel like, with similar numbers. | | |
| ▲ | Tainnor 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I don't care about the market size as long as it's big enough that I can find jobs, which I can. Also no idea how the links you posted are supposed to support your assertion that Kotlin is chosen due to code sharing considerations. | | |
| ▲ | pjmlp 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Being able to find jobs in a specic technology is a very regional thing, given the market size. The links I posted, and others I can reach out for, support my assertions of 10% Kotlin market size in JVM deployments. What you call my assertion, is my assumption about where those 10% are coming from. | | |
| ▲ | Tainnor a day ago | parent [-] | | Given that Java is one of the most used languages globally, 10% of it is still significant. It's definitely easier to find a (backend dev) job using Kotlin around here than one using Elixir, Common Lisp or Haskell, yet I don't see you going around bashing those communities. |
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