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Since its inception, Microsoft Excel has changed how people organize, analyze, and visualize their data, providing a basis for decision-making for the flying billionaires heads up in the clouds who don’t give a fuck for life offtheline
I think you’re comparing 47% to the wrong statistic. It’s 47% of Kotlin developers do backend, not 47% of backend developers use Kotlin. I haven’t seen any reliable backend languages survey yet.
It’s not just side projects. Though admittingly most of the sources there are from a “talking kotlin” podcast which I suspect is tied to JetBrains, the projects discussed in the podcasts aren’t just side-projects. For example “Allegro” is Poland and Slovenia’s Amazon and almost all of their backend is Kotlin apparently. It backends tax collection in Norway and (part of?) Shazam which is owned by Apple which was why I put “Apple?”, I’m not saying Apple’s using it officially.
“Kotlin created against Swift” is completely speculative. The only things related they have is Swift started in 2010 while JetBrains announced it in 2011, but even then it’s a stretch as Swift was only announced in 2014. You can’t make something in response to something which doesn’t exist yet.