kotlinconf-app

If you're already familiar with iOS, you might enjoy using Kotlin Native. KotlinConf has a demo app for iOS written in Kotlin Native: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app

Kotlin Native is not far - the repo already has a lot of sample apps that you can run today. https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/sampl... KotlinConf app in ios was in production release on Kotlin/Native - https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app -> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kotlinconf/id1299196584?mt=8 Do note that this is without the weight of Google's support behind it. I'm not quite sure why you say its far-far in the future. Given Flutter's own maturity, I dont see them being very differently placed in terms of production readiness - https://flutter.io/faq/#should-i-build-my-next-production-ap... Kotlin is a perfect bridge - works brilliantly on the JVM, works brilliantly natively, everyone loves it, simple migration path from Android -> Fuchsia

> The organizers developed conference apps for both iOS and Android using Kotlin. They also built the API in Kotlin using Ktor, a framework for building server-side business logic with Kotlin. This is really cool! Excited to dig into their repo: https://github.com/jetbrains/kotlinconf-app

I doubt Kotlin is a stop-gap measure, and it does a lot more than just give syntactic sugar for null checks. As the comment above you mentioned it's not only JVM, it has a JS backend and a fully native one which is developing very rapidly. Kotlin and Swift have a very significant overlap in language features, and with how strong the Kotlin community is, I don't see it going anywhere anytime soon. In fact, I would sooner see multiplatform development embracing Kotlin over Swift, given how well it's progressing. Kotlin native hasn't even reached 1.0 yet, and they already made a very convincing showcase of how it can be used to develop server backend + frontend + android + iOS with significant code reuse, and not having to constantly switch language contexts: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app

This is all fairly new stuff so there're probably few users outside of JetBrains. Check out https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlinconf-app, it's all written in Kotlin — backend, frontend, everything.