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Sergey V. • Edited

I agree with you. What's important, JetBrains is constantly improving Kotlin and working on extending its capabilities. New versions are being often released, and that's great.

As a mobile app engineer, I'm happy about the appearance of such an advanced language as Kotlin. In our company, we use it more than 50% of our Android development.

Null-safety, extension-functions, coroutines, JVM backend, JavaScript official support, and many other cool features make it an effective tool for writing apps. By the way, TechBeacon included Kotlin in the list of 5 emerging languages with a bright future.

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Defiance Black

Is it a fair assumption that the rest of the 50% is essentially HTML/CSS/JS? While I do webdev, the appdev side of things is still cloudy; I'm unsure if there'd be anything else required.

Your comment makes me better appreciate my PyCharm subscription. When the time comes, it's all a few clicks away.