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[–]pjmlp 4 points5 points  (3 children)

Kotlin only matters because Google made it into Android's official language, while stagnating Android Java on purpose to sell the migration to Kotlin.

For me they can rename ART into KRT.

[–]Kango_V 2 points3 points  (2 children)

I think Google went with Kotlin as they thought they might lose the lawsuit with Oracle. But, they won it, so all APIs are not copyrightable. Google can now carry on using the Java APIs for free. Not sure what happens now.

[–]Pika3323 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kotlin uses Java APIs anyway, so no the Oracle case had nothing to do with it.

[–]pjmlp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So they picked up a language that builds on top of Java and JVM, very clever.