Kotlin, the Java language alternative from JetBrains, has made its way into the top 20 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity.
The just-published September 2023 edition of the Tiobe Programming Community index has Kotlin ranking 20th, with a .90% rating. It is believed to be the first time Kotlin has ever ranked so high in the index, notwithstanding its surging popularity in 2017, when Google declared Kotlin a first-class language and viable alternative to Java for Android development. Tiobe’s popularity ranking is based on a formula that assesses the number of engineers, courses, and third-party vendors related to each language, derived from popular search engines.
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