Talking Kotlin

We talk to Salomon about his Kodein framework which started as a simple dependency injection framework for Kotlin and now has evolved into a multi-platform framework which provides many features including database, logging, etc. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We catch up wth Roman to discuss the state of libraries in Kotlin, the release of coroutines, changes that were brought with it, as well as other activities Roman and team are working on to bring multi-platform libraries to Kotlin. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Kevin about multi-platform development with Kotlin. Amongst many things, we discuss its differences with alternative technologies, the state of tooling and libraries, as well as factors people should consider when adopting OSS technologies. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Gabriel to discuss the move of AirBnB away from React Native and the adoption of Kotlin. We also discuss the potential of multi-platform projects with Kotlin and what he sees are potential benefits and problems to avoid. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Arnaud about Koin, a new dependency injection framework written from the ground up in Kotlin. We discuss the why, the how and whether in this day and age it makes sense to even have dependency injections frameworks. Spoiler...it does. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Bartek about everything Annotations, including why he decided to use extension functions to overcome some of the issues he's faced. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

In this episode we chat to Amanda about how she joined the Kotlin community and the work she's been doing around test automation. As well as the current status of development fatigue that many suffer from. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We catch up with Cedric Beust, a long time user of Kotlin to see his thoughts on the progress of the language, why he chose to stick to Kotlin, his thoughts on mobile multi-platform support in Kotlin as well as a few discussions around functional programming and KEEP87. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Allegro is the largest online Polish retailer and in this episode we chat with Rafal and Konrad about their adoption of Kotlin, how they first used it on server-side then mobile. We also discuss their views on Spring Fu, Ktor, Functional Programming, and even Domain Drive Design! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

In this episode chat with the awesome Michael Hunger about neo4j, GraphQL and some other interesting topics such as programming for kids. If you're not familiar with neo4j, it's a graph database that allows you to model your data in terms of relationships and easily run complex queries. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.