<story><title>Kotlin is the hero Android needs</title><url>https://10clouds.com/blog/kotlin-android/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eng_monkey</author><text>WTF? Some people are spending serious money on a PR campaign to promote Kotlin this week!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StevePerkins</author><text>1. Android is the largest mobile platform on the planet.&lt;p&gt;2. It&amp;#x27;s been around for a decade now, but has only supported development with Java and C++.&lt;p&gt;3. The most recent version of Java supported comes from 2011.  And full C++ support is only recent.&lt;p&gt;4. Few people (if any) really like these options.&lt;p&gt;5. This week Google announced that Kotlin is the next &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; language with first-class support.&lt;p&gt;6. A temporary wave of stories appear on HN.&lt;p&gt;Are you new here?  I&amp;#x27;m sure that next week it&amp;#x27;ll go back to the usual threads about Rust or Haskell, or someone will start a retro fad around Algol-68 or something.</text></comment>
<story><title>Kotlin is the hero Android needs</title><url>https://10clouds.com/blog/kotlin-android/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eng_monkey</author><text>WTF? Some people are spending serious money on a PR campaign to promote Kotlin this week!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Lewton</author><text>I wouldn&amp;#x27;t be surprised if money wasn&amp;#x27;t involved, HN has always worked like this.&lt;p&gt;Some tech post about some technology gets a ton of votes, some people get excited about the tech, they investigate and find articles about that tech, they share it, and all the excited people upvote it.&lt;p&gt;Has happened several times with Rust, Go, Ember, Meteor, Angular, TypeScript, etc etc&lt;p&gt;This time android support and that steve yegge blog post set it off (it probably wasn&amp;#x27;t an accident that these two coincided though?)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s like an echo-chamber with ADHD</text></comment>