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Kotlin announcement 2017/5/17: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/05/android-an...

Swift open source 2015/12/3: https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=34

That was the official support from Google. Kotlin had been around for a long time before that. I used to write Android applications using it before Google officially supported it.

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