Kotlin is more mature, better supported, easier to...

# announcements

[jacob]

Kotlin is more mature, better supported, easier to hire for and has more libraries meaning that development time is smaller

[Daniel Domberger]

can you back this up somehow? I’ve developed Dart for like 2 years and am just getting into Kotlin. Though I’ve noticed some nice things in Kotlin for sure I haven’t felt a sense of one language being clearly superior over the other.

[jacob]

better supported? community engagement would be my metric there, as well as total packages available (all of maven vs however much is available for dart)

[jacob]

more mature (kotlin on jvm for android vs flutter) seems uncontroversial though it may change in the future

[jacob]

more libraries seems fair given that kotlin can consume all of the java libs as well as it's own

[Daniel Domberger]

hmm, true, jvm & java are a big plus in terms of library availability for sure.

[Daniel Domberger]

community engagement though, not so sure. i feel like this can fluctuate quite a lot depending on the flavour of the day and i’ve never felt like i couldn’t find anyone to help me while using dart

[jacob]

that's fair. I'm probably going off where I am a little (sydney) but I've never met a Dart dev here

[jacob]

or even heard of a dartlang job here

[Mohamed Ebrahim]

here!! yes cuz you in kotlin slack maybe.

[jacob]

😛

[jacob]

or in Sydney I should have said