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24 alternatives to Report: State of the Kotlin ecosystem

Results from a survey of 2,744 Kotlin developers

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Report: State of the Kotlin ecosystem launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   The State of JavaScript 2018▲226

   Discover the latest trends in the JavaScript ecosystem

   2018 · 2018.stateofjs.com · its alternatives →

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   I finished v5 of a JVM framework I've spent spent half a decade making▲377

   ForewordJavalin is a Java and Kotlin web framework which focuses on simplicity and Java/Kotlin interoperability.It supports WebSockets and HTTP3, and it uses...

   2022 · javalin.io · its alternatives →

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   Software Engineering Daily: Kotlin with Hadi Hariri▲56

   The world through the lens of software.

   2017 · softwareengineeringdaily.com · its alternatives →

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   State of Community Tools Report by Orbit▲184

   The community tooling trends and insights you need to know

   2021 · orbit.love · its alternatives →

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   State.of.dev▲135

   Visualizing the current state of development

   2017 · dataviewer.com · its alternatives →

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   Kotlin Money▲427

   Manipulating monetary amounts is a common computing chore. However, no mainstream language has a first-class data type for representing money, it’s up to programmers to code abstractions for it. This isn’t an issue per se until dealing with rounding issues from operations like installment payments (e.g., buy now, pay later), foreign exchange, or even simple things like fee processing and tax collection. Inspired by my days at N26 Brasil dealing with these challenges, I introduce Money: a Kotlin library that makes monetary calculations and allocations easy.

   2024 · blog.eriksen.com.br · its alternatives →

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   Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing▲141

   A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop

   2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   A zoomable timeline of 4M Wikipedia events▲118

   I'm building a journal app in Kotlin Multiplatform and for this purpose I have created a zoomable timeline interface. This is a side-project where I reuse the timeline interface to display 4 million events imported from Wikipedia / Wikidata, scored using PageRank. There is more information on the about page. If you're interested in the stack: I use Kotlin Multiplatform extensively, with Compose Multiplatform for the UI, communicates with the backend using Kotlinx-RPC and behind the hood a simple Postgres database on a Hetzner machine.

   Jul 2026 · app.everything.diena.co · its alternatives →

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   Http4k: Server as a Function. In Kotlin. Typesafe. Without the Server▲29

   An overview of the Kotlin

   2017 · http4k.org · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Javalin 1.0 – A Kotlin/Java web framework▲271

    2017 · javalin.io · its alternatives →

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    JavaScript, ES6, ES7, ES10 Where Are We?▲33

    2019 · medium.com · its alternatives →

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    Kotlin for Android Developers▲63

    Learn Kotlin the easy way while developing an Android App

    2016 · antonioleiva.com · its alternatives →

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    My first open-source project release – RandomJson▲56

    Provides a Kotlin/Java library to create a random json string - mangatmodi/RandomJson

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Continuous Research Trends Report▲130

    Discover data and insights from 600+ product professionals

    2022 · maze.co · its alternatives →

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    Kotlin 1.0▲6

    Pragmatic programming language for JVM and Android

    2016 · blog.jetbrains.com · its alternatives →

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    Mosaic – A Kotlin framework for cleaner back end code▲25

    Backend APIs often grow into large orchestration classes full of duplicated calls and manual concurrency. I’ve been working on Mosaic, a Kotlin framework that composes responses out of small, request-scoped “tiles.” Each tile runs once per request, dependencies resolve automatically, and independent tiles execute in parallel without boilerplate. It’s still early (v0.2.0), but working today for caching, concurrency, and testability. Curious to hear feedback on the approach. GitHub: https://github.com/Nick-Abbott/Mosaic Maven Central: org.buildmosaic:mosaic-core:0.2.0

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The State of European Tech▲75

    In-depth report by Atomico

    2017 · 2017.stateofeuropeantech.com · its alternatives →

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    Kotlin▲3

    Statically typed programming language targeting the Java /JS

    2015 · kotlinlang.org · its alternatives →

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    State of Stack by Netguru▲70

    Insight into the state of technology by developers

    2016 · netguru.com · its alternatives →

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    KReact, a Kotlin Redux-like framework for application state management▲7

    This library provides a Redux-like implementation in pure Kotlin and coroutines. - kreact/kreact

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Javalin, a Java/Kotlin REST API Framework▲50

    Javalin - A lightweight Java and Kotlin web framework. Create REST APIs in Java or Kotlin easily.

    2017 · javalin.io · its alternatives →

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    The 2017 Global Startup Ecosystem Report▲11

    The most comprehensive report about startup ecosystems

    2017 · startupgenome.com · its alternatives →

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    Kotlin or Java▲3

    Kotlin or Java: Which Do Android Developers Prefer?

    2019 · cmarix.com · its alternatives →

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    A blog on pragmatic software development▲19

    Welcome to The State of Progress, a blog that hosts only pragmatic and timeless articles on developing and managing software.

    2016 · stateofprogress.blog · its alternatives →

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