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Starting with version 3.0 of Android Studio, Kotlin support will be built-in. This means that it's now easier than ever to use Kotlin for existing Android projects or even start writing Android apps only with Kotlin from scratch.
This also means that Kotlin and Kotlin plugins for Android Studio will be fully supported in the future and their likelihood of being abandoned is quite small since Google is fully embracing the language for their Android ecosystem (alongside Java and C++).
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Kotlin is a real multi purpose language, since you can even compile to js or web assembly. It is mainly used for ios and android applications. The developers are the creators of intellij IDE, which is probably the only IDE, which can afford to offer yearly subscriptions. However, the community edition is fr...
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Easy to learn if you have prior programming experience