Talking Kotlin

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 note...

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...

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 we...

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.