Lisa works on the Dev Craft team at Instagram that embarked on a journey to bring Kotlin to the Instagram for Android code base a little over three years ago. Now, nearly half of the large codebase is migrated and over 80% of newly committed code is in Kotlin. Tune in to hear what the unique challenges of bringing a new language to an existing app are and what it means for build speed, IDE experiences and developer happiness.
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Timestamps
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Intro 0:06
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Intro Lisa 1:27
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Dev Craft at Instagram 3:03
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Building DevX Partnerships 3:56
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The History of Kotlin at Instagram 6:22
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Declarative UI 18:29
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Build Speed Challenges 20:25
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Source-Only ABIs 23:19
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IDE Performance 26:19
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Kotlin at IG in 2023 27:15
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Outro 32:02
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Bloopers 33:07
