Kotlin' ten years jubilee: what's going on?

SafeValue must use [property]=binding: Since 2011 when Kotlin was born, it's gained popularity worth discussing. Kotlin itself is a modern statically typed programming language. Google claimed that it is the "first-class" language for Android development and over 60% of professional Android developers use it because of its outstanding feature to boost productivity, developer satisfaction, and code safety. After such mighty informational support, this language began to appear in various ratings of programming languages' popularity. Ubuntupit, Cleveroad, Stackify admits Kotlin as one of the most fast-growing Android languages despite TIOBE's claim Kotlin descending from 36 to 40 place in their December Index. TIOBE is a trustable resource and collects data from several sources and aggregators. For example, each qualifying language must be their own Wikipedia entry, be Turing complete, and earn more than 5,000 hits for +" <language> programming" on Google. So does it need to learn Kotlin? Does it have such a prominent future as Google is trying to impose on us? Actually, yes Today, Kotlin is an excellent popular niche language worth learning considering Google's efforts to promote it. Just take a look at the Android Basics in Kotlin course. It's step-by-step instructions on how to use Android Studio to build apps. By the way, Udemy offers it for the 12,99 $ only, at a moment when this article was written. Add to the same basket Kotlin Bootcamp for Programmers, Android Kotlin Fundamentals, and Advanced Android in Kotlin, and we bet you'll appreciate that. Undoubtedly, Kotlin is not fit to hold a candle to Python, Java, and other, larger languages by now. But do you remember the story of Swift, Amazon, and its rise? Since 2014 it took a few years to speed up itself but now it is a perfect replacement for Objective-C, which best times are over. TIOBE Index trend does not exclude to challenge Groovy, SQL, and PHP; who knows? Developers are not Sleepy Joe and planning on learning Kotlin as the third or next language to use. At least this is stated in the HackerRank 2020 Developer Skills Report. Now it's still a baby, but all indicates it will grow soon. (see http://g.co/ng/security#xss)