“Kotlin is not actually compiled to Objective-C for iOS. Will there be a way for Kotlin to compile to Swift instead of Obj-C for KMM? “We are keeping it on our radar, but we feel that the most important short-term improvement that we can make to Kotlin when expressions is adding support for guards. I asked this last time but what’s your current thinking regarding pattern matching? “We closely follow the JVM design process, and we don’t see ourselves running into problems with any JVM features that are in development, or even with the ones that are planned for the far future.” Over the medium to long run, lets say 5 years or so, given the pace of change for Java has picked up do you envisage any problems in maintaining the compatibility of Java and Kotlin? For example are there currently any projects for changing the Java language or JVM bytecode structure which could be really difficult to integrate Kotlin with? Yes, at the moment we are working on the next edition of this survey. Feature descriptions and registration to the webinar with Svetlana Isakova and Roman Elizarov is in the blog post.

Will there be something similar in the future? Some years ago, there was a developer survey letting us vote for our most-wished features. But upvoted questions, and in fact the ones we found most interesting ourselves, were about Kotlin’s future. We received quite a few technical questions, as well as questions about the recent release.

Thanks a lot to everyone who asked the questions and to the team who carefully answered all of them. The answers are a great source of knowledge for everyone in the Kotlin community. When going through the questions on Reddit, we felt it was important to share them more widely. It was exciting to receive hundreds of questions from all of you, and it was also great fun to answer them and participate in all the discussions.

You can also jump into the discussions in the comments or on Reddit (links below)!Ī couple of weeks ago, as part of the 1.5.0 release event, we hosted a Kotlin team AMA on Reddit. In this post you’ll find the answers to 10 of the most upvoted questions about Kotlin’s future.

Kotlin reddit