I never got my head around why Kotlin was so quickly adopted on

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I never got my head around why Kotlin was so quickly adopted on the backend, but Swift barely was, even if theoretically could have worked as well. Anyone know reasons for one or the other?

swiftlang@swiftlang19h ago

Google: “[Swift] has matured into a viable systems and cloud language, pairing Rust-like data-race safety with predictable, reference-counted performance.” Announcing their Swift-based cloud SDK for backend services: https://t.co/fGQKYSTKi7