Google Reaffirms Commitment To Kotlin Programming Language For Android

[Mario Junior]

Oh, another bloat shit. Bravo!

[tildearrow]

Not seeing why Kotlin should be worse than Java. It basically is still Java.

Apps on android have always been bloated as hell.

It is better than Java.

However, it adds a ton of libraries.
I'm not sure how are Tibor's apps so huge then.

[starshipeleven]

Kotlin = 7 More Megabytes per App

The Simple Apps are a big example of this bloat.
Supposedly simple but actually bloated.

Not seeing why Kotlin should be worse than Java. It basically is still Java.

Apps on android have always been bloated as hell.

[S.Pam]

It's not bloat from Google.perspective; 1) all the ad libs and AI stuff they need to gather your data, and 2) bigger apps means selling more new phones with more storage and RAM.

[tildearrow]

Kotlin = 7 More Megabytes per App

The Simple Apps are a big example of this bloat.
Supposedly simple but actually bloated.

[Aeder]

It's funny that Google's reputation for killing products regardless of how loved they are leads to having to say things like "Yes, we will continue to support this growing programming language".

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Reaffirms Commitment To Kotlin Programming Language For Android

The Kotlin programming language on Android has become very popular and Google announced today nearly 60% of the top 1,000 Android applications are using Kotlin code in some capacity. Beyond their announcement earlier this year of Android development being Kotlin-first, as they look forward to 2020 will be more Kotlin + Android action...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kotlin-Android-2020