Talking Kotlin

We chat with the folks from Flux around their use of Kotlin on the backend, to develop a service that replaces paper receipts. We talk about the technology they're using (Dropwizard), any challenges faced, both from a technical perspective as well as a business on in adopting Kotlin as a start-up company. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat to David about sequences in Kotlin - what they are, how and when to use them, and the performance implications that they have over regular collections. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Edwin from OpenRNDR to discuss creative graphical programming and the engine that has been developed for this purpose using Kotlin. We discuss its usages and why it was developed using Kotlin. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Kevin about writing compiler plugins for Kotlin, covering what the goals with plugin technology is, when it's useful, as well as how to get started in this area. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Mark decided to develop a multiplatform game, taking the concept of common code to the extreme. In this episode we discuss his adventures, the issues he encountered and how applicable this really would be in other types of applications such as LOB ones. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Pamela Hill about code kindness, in which we discuss what constitutes comprehensible code and the things we need to be aware of when writing code. We discuss the challenges of different approaches to writing code, objectivity, code reviews, and a bunch of other things! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Alec Strong about SQL Delight, the multiplatform data access library that have written from the ground up using Kotlin. We discuss some of the differences with other data access frameworks as well as the benefits that Kotlin has provided them. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We talk to a few folks at Uber Engineering about their adoption of Kotlin in a non-conventional setting where they're using Buck. We also discuss some of the work they've been doing in terms of performance analysis with Kotlin and the differences with Java. This work has been published and available for public access (see show notes). Note: first couple of minutes had some feedback issues which were resolved. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We talk to Ryan about Ktor, the asynchronous framework for connected systems, developed and maintained by JetBrains. We talk about how it can be used for developing server side applications and its differences with some other existing ones. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Christina and I sit down to talk about submitting talks to conferences, and in particular about KotlinConf. That and some chat about cats and dogs! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.