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Kotlin is ranked really low. Much lower than I would expect given that it is almost an alternate Android language.

Did the Dart guys somehow gain massive momentum? Or is Electron or React eating this up?



For my part, as someone who's just starting to look into cross platform development again after a couple decades of not caring, I have been 100% focused on Cordova and React Native. JavaScript on the front end seems like the only viable option, so I'm going with it despite my strong distaste for JavaScript.

I dismissed everything else pretty quickly for being too limited in what platforms I could target. Kotlin's out for being a poor choice for iOS. Dart/Flutter is out for not yet having fully baked desktop support.




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