In recent times, Kotlin's popularity has been growing not just in Android but also in backend, desktop, and even data science. Showing the fastest growth among JVM-based languages in developer surveys, Kotlin stands out, especially with its integration with Spring Boot 3. With the stable release of Kotlin Multiplatform, it's now possible to target multiple platforms with a single codebase. Do you think Kotlin's flexibility will give it significant weight in future software trends, or will it still be less preferred compared to game-focused languages?
New developments regarding Kotlin's non-Android uses
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I've been using Kotlin for everything lately—backend, CLI tools, even some data science with Kotlin for Data Science++. Spring Boot 3 + Kotlin is a total game changer; startup time and dev ergonomics are way better than Java in my opinion.
For multiplatform stuff, the 1.9 stable release of Kotlin Multiplatform feels solid now. I recently built a small cross-platform library that runs on JVM, JS, and iOS. Shared 80% of the logic with minimal platform-specific adapters—no more "write once, debug everywhere." If you're doing Android + iOS, KMM cuts dev time a ton; just watch out for Gradle’s caching quirks though.