Who uses Kotlin backend?

Uber uses Kotlin for building internal tools. Gradle introduced Kotlin as their language for writing build scripts. Atlassian powers their Trello on Android with Kotlin. Pinterest has incorporated Kotlin in their application with an average use of 150M users a month.

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Why is Kotlin used for backend?

It provides similar syntax and concepts as C#, Java, or Scala and it mainly targets the JVM but also has variants that target JavaScript or native code . It is very similar to Java in that Kotlin/JVM compiles down to Java bytecode, so for those back-end engineers who have a JVM background, Kotlin will be easy to grasp.

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