#Kotlin2019 and beyond

Kotlin's rapid growth is nothing short of exciting. But can it fulfill all its promises?

Given all the support by both JetBrains and Google, and the almost universal love that Kotlin receives in the developer community, we are sure that the language is not going anywhere. The main question is: will it manage to seriously break into the communities outside of Android?

JetBrains is heavily pushing the multi-platform dream, but will it see sufficient adoption in the following months and years? Will Kotlin become the new standard for web, iOS, or backend developers?

Regardless of this, even if it takes years to expand beyond the world of Android, we’ll still see new generations of developers taking their first steps into programming with Kotlin. They will have a modern, versatile, cross-platform language at their disposal. One that can cross between OO, functional, scripting, and declarative paradigms with ease.

This could mean that Kotlin will affect the wider programming language landscape by becoming a benchmark for what a programming language should be able to do.

One thing is for sure: there are exciting times ahead for the Kotlin ecosystem.

What are your opinions or thoughts? Either on the future of Kotlin itself, or this survey? Either drop us an email atstateofkotlin@pusher.com, or use the #StateOfKotlin hashtag on Twitter.