Talking Kotlin

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.

We chat with Vitaly about JAI Conversational Framework - a tool that allows you to build a conversational interface to your application without the need to use any of the big players on the market. We dicuss the benefits to the approach and why they chose Kotlin.

We sit down to talk to Nikolay Igotti, who's now leading the efforts of Compose for Desktop at JetBrains. We talk about why the need for a new UI framework for Desktop, how Compose for Desktop works, and what's planned for the future.

We chat with Sergey and Max about their use of Kotlin in Space. We cover the frameworks that they use, some of which were born out of Space. We discuss their adoption of Multiplatform before Kotlin Multiplatform even existed, as well as why they chose Kotlin and the benefits it provides them, along with the main issues they encounter.

We chat with the folks working on the Apollo library for GraphQL. We discuss what GraphQL is, where Apollo fits in to the equation, and why they decided to provide multiplatform support using Kotlin.

We chat with Nicolai about teaching kids programming with Kotlin, as well as his project, EngineEmi written in Kotlin, which tries to aid in this task

We sit down with James Ward from Google to discuss everything Google Cloud Platform and Kotlin. And as a bonus we dive into the past, and Kubernetes

We chat with Breandan about Differentials and Derivatives, and Maths in general. We look at where and how they can be applied to programming, as well as the Kotlingrad

Fritz2 is a Kotlin framework for developing front-end web applications. Written entirely in Kotlin and targeting JavaScript, Fritz2 takes a reactive approach to development. In this episode we sit down with the authors to learn more about the framework.

We sit down with the Kotlin Advocates at JetBrains to discuss life of a Kotlin advocate, the Kotlin 1.4 release, as well as the online Kotlin 1.4 event happening in October.

We chat with Vladimir about Compose from a user perspective. We go through the history of UI solutions that have been available for Android, and see how and where Compose fits in. We also briefly talk about Flow and how it can make a great companion to Compose.

We sit down with Josh Long to talk about life, the current world situation, and of course Spring and Kotlin. We discuss the adoption of Kotlin over the years, what the Spring team is doing to support Kotlin, and many other things.

We sit down with Erik to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning. We talk about the value of knowing how things work under the covers, as well as maths, functional programming, and many other topics, including why he chose Kotlin, and what he likes and dislikes of the language.

We sit down with the folks from the team at AWS that work on QLDB, to discuss what Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is, their usage of Kotlin, why they choose Kotlin over Java for this new project, and how their overall experience has been.

We chat with Roman Belov about the work he's doing at JetBrains with Kotlin for Data Science. We discuss the approach they're taking to work with the existing ecosystem as opposed to try and replicate it. How this is different from some of the other efforts under way and the direction in which they're moving when it comes to Data Science with Kotlin on multiple platforms.

Jetpack Compose is the new UI toolkit from Google that is Kotlin First. It takes advantage of Kotlin's Compiler Plugin Architecture to provide a performant UI layer for Android development (albeit extensible to other platforms). We sit down with lead of the project to discuss what it is and plans around it.

We sit down with Michael Pardo to discuss the MVU pattern, taking a brief look at all the other patterns that have existed for UI development over the years. We then talk about Oolong, a library for Kotlin for facilitating MVU in your applications.

We chat with Gaëtan about their work on data visualization using Kotlin. As one of the first pioneers of not only using Kotlin, but also targeting multiple platforms before Kotlin/Multiplatform even existed, Gaëtan talk about why and how they decided to first target JavaScript and JavaFX with their products.

We sit down with Jesse and Egor from Square to discuss how they decided to port OKio and OKHttp completely to Kotlin Multiplatform back when Kotlin wasn't even officially supported by Google. We discuss their ventures, reactions from the community, as well as some other things they're using Kotlin for on the backend.

We sit down with JetBrains Developer Advocate Sebastian Aigner, and discuss Kotlin/JS. We cover the new features, the efforts being taken to lower the entry bar to Kotlin/JS, et al.

In this special episode recorded for International Women's Day, we're joined with our good friends and colleague Svetlana Isakova, Florina Muntenescu, Huyen Tue Dao, and Christina Lee to discuss amongst other things what idiomatic Kotlin is, the importance of style guides, comprehensible code, and many other things!

Sebastian has been an advocate for Kotlin at his company and they jumped on board with multiplatform. Hear their story of what path they took to accomplish this and their challenges.

We chat with Vladislav about Kotless, a Kotlin Serverless Framework, which eliminates the need for a deployment DSL (like Terraform, SAM, CloudFormation or CDK) and makes serverless computations easily understandable for anyone familiar with event-based architectures.

We catch up with Ken on what he's been doing lately and discuss his new book around Kotlin recipes, called Kotlin Cookbook. We also discuss where one should draw the line when teaching concepts and how often to dive into the details. We also briefly touch up on his new book!

We chat with the folks from ISEL about their gradual adoption of Kotlin, starting from Android to now having a course on teaching programming with Kotlin.

We chat with Joe about the work he's done in his spare time to create an accessible guitar, to teach those that are challenged. A very inspiring tale of working to make things better for others in this world.

We chat about Graphics Programming on Android and how and where Kotlin can help, availability of Kotlin libraries and where and if code sharing could help with graphics programming when targeting multiple platforms. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down to talk to Josh about coroutines, its usage in Android, the differences with RxJava and whether we can combine both technologies. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

In this episode we chat to Ana Redmond about her adoption of Kotlin/Native for multi-platform development very close to the time it was announced. She went fully onboard with the technology and managed to develop and release a successful educational game. Very inspiring story of someone that went from not knowing Kotlin or Swift, to release a product in a short span of time. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Annyce to discuss the use of Kotlin features and whether or not we're often abusing these in detriment of creating maintainable code. We chat about code review practices, design principles and even the DLR principle! We even talk about Googling. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We sit down with Florina from Google to talk about everything Kotlin, from Android and what it means to be Kotlin First, to the series of Kotlin/Everywhere events that JetBrains and Google have collaborated on, and even touching on code reviews. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

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.

We catch up with Thomas Nield to discuss what's been going with Kotlin in relation to Data Science and Machine Learning. Thomas gives us an update on the work he's been focusing on and some of the new things happening. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

We chat with Shelby from Intuit about adoption of Kotlin on the server-side, combined with functional programming. Shelby talks about some of the challenges faced and how they learn and pace their adoption. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

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.