Big fan of Kotlin and would love to see it used more on Android.<p>I&#x27;m still kind of flabbergasted that Google has no official (publicly known) plan to start moving away from Java given the lawsuits, general disregard for Java (keep in mind I say this as someone whose day job is Android development in Java), warm reception of Swift, etc.<p>I was hoping that the Android Studio&#x2F;JetBrains connection would result in some sort of officially-blessed move towards Kotlin, but disappointed on that front so far.<p>Not that you need Google&#x27;s official blessing to use Kotlin -- it works great today, but there&#x27;s often political pressure not to use &quot;fringe&quot; languages when working on projects at most companies which is a pain to deal with and which is still forcing a lot of people to use shitty old Java 6.