Kotlin has many full time paid compiler developers by Google

lemming · on Nov 1, 2020

Do you have a source for this? I develop a plug-in for JetBrains IDEs professionally, I talk a lot to people there and I’ve never heard this.

iLemming · on Nov 3, 2020

Hi Colin. What's CursiveIDE made of? It's not written in Clojure, is it?

lemming · on Nov 3, 2020

It's written in a mix of Java (older legacy code), Kotlin (new non-Clojure code) and Clojure.

The_rationalist · on Nov 1, 2020

Just look at the paid members of the kotlin foundation: (Ctrl find Google) https://kotlinlang.org/foundation/kotlin-foundation.html#kot...

https://github.com/jsjeon is probably the most prolific one as I often see him in the commit history.

BTW which plugin are you working on?

lemming · on Nov 1, 2020

But if you look at the contributor history for the repo, he's at #54, just after JetBrains' actual CEO. I don't think you could make the claim that Google contribute significantly to the language itself based off that.

I develop https://cursive-ide.com.