Kotlin continues to grow in popularity among Java developers, a new report from Snyk revealed. In its annual JVM ecosystem report it found that Kotlin is now the second most popular JVM language.

Kotlin has played a role in the declining popularity of Java in recent years. In the latest index, Java’s rating dropped from 8.92% to 8.35%, placing it outside the top 3 for a second month.

As Java has such a huge existing ecosystem it will be hard for a language like Kotlin to suddenly rise and take over in such a short amount of time. It is everywhere as Sun/Oracle always claim.

Meanwhile 15% say they apply security updates within days of their release. IntelliJ IDEA, an integrated development environment (IDE) from Kotlin-maker JetBrains, is by far the most popular IDE.

The decades-long length of the project lets it track long-term historical trends, and the latest one identified by Paul Jansen, CEO of TIOBE Software, sees the ascent of C# at the expense of Java -- ...

The statically typed language developed by JetBrains initially for the Java Virtual Machine, reached the top 50 in the index this month for the first time, ranking 43rd, although it has a rating ...

The most surprising finding for Maple: the rapidly growing popularity of IntelliJ IDEA and the relative decline of Eclipse. Among the three Java IDEs, all of which were relatively well represented in ...