Along with improved Web functionality, Swift/Kotlin support and Dart 2.5, other highlights of Flutter 1.9 include: Support for macOS Catalina and iOS 13: "As Apple prepares to release Catalina, the ...

The growth has put Kotlin in second place, albeit well behind Java, but now ahead of Clojure and Scala. Oracle JDK – Java Development Kit – is also losing share to OpenJDK alternatives.

“Studies have shown that Kotlin is much more expressive than Java, i.e., you need to write less lines of code to do the same thing in Kotlin,” Jansen told TechRepublic.