Hey there! I’m working on an article about Kotlin,...

# announcements

[Marc Reichelt]

Hey there! I’m working on an article about Kotlin, and I’m looking for a good resource that shows its recent growth, maybe even compared to other languages like Java. What are good resources out there that are independent from JetBrains (which is arguably biased ;))?

[John O'Reilly]

This is from the Kotlin 1.4 event (so I guess potentially has the bias you mentioned 🙂 ) - but numbers quoted are mostly from independent sources https://twitter.com/joreilly/status/1315656615618646017?s=20

[kralli]

You could try the annual Stack Overflow surveys. The are some numbers about Kotlin and its popularity in there.

[Marc Reichelt]

@John O'Reilly those are nice - but they aren’t quoting the original source, so not really independent

[Marc Reichelt]

Maybe Stackoverflow surveys are a good idea, or the GitHub Octoverse reports

[Marc Reichelt]

GitHub 2018 report was that Kotlin grew 2.6x in contributors, and 2019 report was that it gained +82% in programming language use. Those are great to show Kotlin is the fastest growing language for the JVM. Unfortunately the Octoverse 2020 report is not out yet.

[Etienne Savard]

SO 2020 survey is interesting, and less chances to be tied to a particular ecosystem (ask JS developer which is the #1 language, it will be JS, a Java dev, that’s Java, etc.) : https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/27/2020-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results/