At the beginning of the year, we ran a survey on the State of Kotlin, asking developers for their thoughts, opinions, and experiences, about the language, its ecosystem and how you’ve gotten around to learning it.
We had a great response from 2,744 intrepid Kotliners, and we are excited to announce that we released a report with our findings from the survey!
Here are some nuggets of information awaiting for you in the report:
- Android is HUGE — about 80% of respondents said they are Android developers.
- Kotlin is growing astronomically — a true hockey stick experience, especially since Google announced official support for Kotlin on Android.
- A large portion of developers program in Kotlin in both their work and side projects. Over half of respondents’ projects are also written almost entirely in Kotlin!
- When it comes to favorite features, most like to play it safe, with null safety being adored by over 80% of developers, followed by extension functions, streamlined interoperability with Java, and data classes.
Our team at Pusher predicts that over time, more and more of that growth will come from new developers for whom Kotlin will be their first foray into programming, and it just might happen that they will judge every other language against Kotlin.
If this sounds interesting to you, go to pusher.com/state-of-kotlin to check out the report. If you have any comments, questions, about this survey, or suggestions for State of Kotlin 2019, please get in touch at stateofkotlin@pusher.com.
