How Kotlin Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Anton Arhipov (@antonarhipov) about:

Anton appeared previously on "#273 The Long Road to Java and Kotlin", discussion about Anton Arhipov's artwork using circles and a compass, attending the JVM Language Summit in 2011 where Kotlin was introduced by JetBrains, initial skepticism about the need for a new JVM language, JSR-305 Annotations for Software Defect Detection by William Pugh, Kotlin's null safety features and interoperability with Java, Kotlin's growth and adoption by Android developers, Kotlin's multiplatform capabilities for targeting native, JavaScript, and WebAssembly, Kotlin's potential beyond Android development, Kotlin's core libraries for date/time, serialization, and coroutines, the Kotlin compiler being self-hosted and written in Kotlin, benefits of Kotlin Native for serverless and IoT compared to GraalVM, Kotlin Multiplatform support in the upcoming JetBrains Fleet IDE, designers using similar UI principles across IDEs and applications

Anton Arhipov on twitter: @antonarhipov