TechCrunch

Kotlin is now Google’s preferred language for Android app development

Google today announced that the Kotlin programming language is now its preferred language for Android app developers. “Android development will become increasingly Kotlin-first,” Google writes in ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: Why Meta is moving its Android apps from Java to Kotlin

Engineers at Facebook parent Meta have detailed their multi-year effort to convert the codebases for its numerous Android apps from the Java programming language over to Kotlin. That's a large task ...
ZDNet

Programming languages: Kotlin rises fastest but JavaScript lures millions more developers

There are now 20.4 million active software developers in the world, and more than half of them have chosen to learn JavaScript or Microsoft's JavaScript superset language, TypeScript. That's according ...
TechRepublic

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity

April 2025 TIOBE Index: Kotlin, Ruby & Swift Drop in Popularity Your email has been sent The market is a bit defensive,” TIOBE Software CEO Paul Jansen said, noting people cling to the familiar top 20 ...
InfoWorld

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby losing popularity – Tiobe index

Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby have dropped from their top 20 positions in the language popularity index and seem to be in decline, according to Tiobe. The Kotlin, Swift, and Ruby languages have slipped from ...