The State of the Kotlin ecosystem
summary
Surveyed developer population totals 2744 responses and shows Kotlin used for 70–80% Android work, with Google-reporting ~35% Android Studio users on Kotlin. Resources are dominated by kotlin.org and JetBrains docs (~90%) and Kotlin Weekly (~20%). A third of respondents use coroutines, 40% have used DSLs (25% of those write their own), and many report migrating Java code—10% via the converter and ~25% needing to backtrack. Kotlin/Native, Kotlin/JS, SQLDelight and NarkDB appear in real projects.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction to Kotlin survey
- 1:33Why Kotlin makes developers happy
- 4:24Survey demographics and responses
- 7:35How developers learn Kotlin
- 9:48Kotlin adoption trends over time
- 12:03Kotlin usage beyond Android
- 13:11Favorite Kotlin features
- 15:23Extension functions and migrations
- 17:52Challenges in Java to Kotlin migration
- 19:22Coroutines and threading
- 20:49Domain-specific languages in Kotlin
- 22:53Kotlin Native and Kotlin JS growth
- 24:41Missing features and complaints
- 26:52Tools and library ecosystem
- 29:24Survey resources and future plans
- 30:08Q&A and closing remarks
