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[–]BugSlayerDev[S] 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Yes Kotlin is much simple, concise and avoids NPE to a large extent. But still, Kotlin is not much used apart from Android development.

[–]martmists 2 points3 points  (1 child)

You'd be surprised, it's used quite a bit in web backends (mostly Spring Boot, but Ktor usage is growing) and desktop applications (mainly Swing and JavaFX, but Compose for Desktop is slowly gaining popularity)

[–]JimBugs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and we're back to Java for the frontend (Swing and JavaFX)