ING has seen significant adoption of Kotlin over the past five years, with major internal frameworks and critical services now fully written in Kotlin.
The company actively contributes to the Kotlin community, organizing events like the yearly ING Kotlin Summit and creating user groups.
Internally, ING's codebase shows a strong Kotlin adoption, with over 90k internal repositories and around 8% of them containing Kotlin code.
A trend analysis reveals Kotlin's upward trajectory, becoming the second most used JVM language within the company.
Repositories containing Kotlin predominantly consist of Kotlin code, while Scala and Groovy repositories are more hybrid in nature.
Approximately 11% of internal repositories created in February 2025 are pure Kotlin repositories, indicating the organic growth of the language within ING.
The data analysis provides insights into Kotlin's increasing presence at ING and highlights the language's appeal to developers.