Talking Kotlin

Kotlin community members share their experiences with the language, discussing its impact on software engineering, community growth, excitement for Kotlin Multiplatform, future prospects compared to Java, anticipated features for Kotlin 3.0, desire for Kotlin to leverage non-JVM platforms, and expressions of gratitude and optimism for the podcast's future.

In this episode, we’ll sit down with Ksenia Shneyveys, the Kotlin Manager for Education and University Relations at JetBrains, and talk to her about the current state and future of Kotlin in academia. Kseniya will tell us about the recent increase in institutions and educators teaching Kotlin, including adoption by Stanford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Chicago, and many other prestigious institutions.

Matt Anger, Senior Staff Engineer at DoorDash, walks us through how they have embraced Kotlin on Android, their server-side backend services, migrating away from their previous monolithic implementation, and going all in with Kotlin as DoorDash’s language of choice. Learn more about how DoorDash uses Kotlin: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/12/doordash-building-scalable-backend-services-with-kotlin/ Read the story of DoorDash’s migration from Python to Kotlin for their backend: https://doordash.engineering/2021/05/04/migrating-from-python-to-kotlin-for-our-backend- services/ Using Structured Concurrency to Write Maintainable gRPC Endpoints in Kotlin - https://doordash.engineering/2022/07/26/functional-core-imperative-shell-using-structured-concurrency-to-write-maintainable-grpc-endpoints-in-kotlin/

In this episode, we talk to Ivan Sanchez and David Denton, the co-creators of the http4k framework, which provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services with Kotlin using a functional programming approach.

In this episode, we’re talking to Nabil Hachicha and Claus Rørbech from the Realm team about the Realm Kotlin Multiplatform SDK project.

In this episode we talk to Jeffrey Van Gogh and Mads Ager from Google about the Kotlin compiler, covering everything from its basic structure and the infrastructure for building Android apps to new symbol processing approaches with KSP.

In this episode, We talk to Rahul Pandey an Android engineer at Facebook and a lecturer at Stanford about the specifics of his approach to teaching Kotlin for Android development at Stanford.

Arkadii Ivanov, Android Engineer at Bumble Engineering and Google Developer Expert for Kotlin takes us on a journey through his open-source projects MVIKotlin and Decompose. Find out about the Model-View-Intent architecture pattern, learn how Decompose helps write better declarative multiplatform user interfaces with Kotlin, and discover that time travel is possible – at least for debugging.

In this episode, guest John O'Reilly shares his multiplatform development journey. John takes us back to his roots, discusses his experiences with developing for multiple platforms, explains how Kotlin Multiplatform helps with productivity, and shares his open source projects.

In this episode, we talk to the new Kotlin Project Lead, Roman Elizarov, who tells us all about the Kotlin team, their areas of focus, and their plans for the future.