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>I guess Fortune 500's have missed that memo, including IBM own subsidiaries.

They probably did. They're late for all memos. The Fortune 500 is not were you'll go to gauge adoption. Heck, half of them still have IE6 only apps.

There are hundreds of thousands of companies, and just 500, well, Fortune 500.

Apparently you use the most established and boring development-wise of companies (Fortune 500) to prove Kotlin is not used widely, but you're OK with vaporware like Fucscia that's not even beta yet as an argument that Dart and co are.

>I am betting Kotlin would become yet another language that happens to compile to the JVM

And I bet you're wrong. Let's see in 5 years. We were on HN 10 years ago, we'll probably be here then. I'll set a reminder.



Because they prove Google is struggling with internal politics where to go next.




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