Why is Google moving to Kotlin?

Google has “a whole bunch of ongoing Kotlin work” for Android, he said, including Jetpack Compose, new Kotlin Extension (KTX) APIs for Jetpack, and is building on work to make the compiler faster that got underway in the latest 1.3. 30 Kotlin release, as well as improving tooling, documentation and code samples .

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Is Kotlin used at Google?

Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development . Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in today’s announcement.7 May 2019

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