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Kotlin in numbers

• July 2011 JetBrains unveiled Project Kotlin,

• v1.0 ⇒ Feb 15, 2016

• v1.1 ⇒ March 1, 2017

https://d3nmt5vlzunoa1.cloudfront.net/kotlin/files/2017/03/GitHub-Stats-1.gif

• 160’000 were using Kotlin

• 10M lines of kotlin codes in github

• Hundreds of StackOverflow answers;

• Two books: Kotlin in Action and Kotlin for Android Developers;

• 5’700 people (over 4x in one year)

• equally strong with server-side and Android developers (roughly 50/50 divide)

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/03/kotlin-1-1/

Kotlin links

• http://kotlinlang.org/

• https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlin

• http://try.kotlinlang.org/

• https://kotlinlang.slack.com

• https://fabiomsr.github.io/from-java-to-kotlin/

• https://kotlin.link/

Other links

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-needs-kotlin/

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-java.html

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/comparison-to-scala.html