

Talking Kotlin
Talking Kotlin
A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.
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Dec 28, 2017 • 35min
Internal Development at JetBrains
We talk with Eduard Guskiy, team lead for internal development at JetBrains. Eduard and his team work on a series of applications that are either customer facing or for internal usage. We speak about their migration to Kotlin and how they ported an existing Java/Spring/Struts application to Kotlin.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Dec 14, 2017 • 33min
Kotlin at BBC Sports
We chat with Dai and John on using Kotlin at BBC Sports and the challenges they've faced, along with some of the things they've encountered when using Kotlin, such as whether lack of nullability forces us to be more proactive in terms of error control.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com or download the App from the Android Store.

Nov 28, 2017 • 31min
Data Science with Thomas Nield
Chatting to Thomas Nield about Data Science, what it is and why he feels Kotlin is a great fit for manipulating data to extract information.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Nov 13, 2017 • 33min
Usergroups and community with Guy Heylens
We sit down with Guy Heylens, founder of the Kotlin Belgium User Group about the challenges and rewards of setting up a user group, and whether it continues to make sense in putting in the effort given the amount of online resources.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Oct 27, 2017 • 32min
Multiplatform Development with Eugenio Marletti
We chat with Eugenio from Clue about sharing Kotlin code across multiple platforms and how Kotlin has helped them at Clue.
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Oct 16, 2017 • 32min
Kotlin at American Express
Sitting down after Google I/O, we chat with Michael about their adoption of Kotlin at American Express, where they took a slightly different route to others.
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Sep 28, 2017 • 35min
TornadoFX with Edvin Syse
We chat with Edvin about TornadoFX, a JavaFX framework for building desktop applications. Edvin gives insight into how his framework helps with rapid application development, as well as future directions he's looking into taking.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Sep 14, 2017 • 33min
Sitting down with Tor Norbye
We talk Lint, Linters and Linting with Tor Norbye along with what the news about Google officially supporting Kotlin means for Android Studio.
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Aug 28, 2017 • 35min
Kotlin at Basecamp with Jay Ohms
We talk to Jay Ohms at Basecamp about their adoption and use of Kotlin and how between two developers they manage to keep their Android application running!
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Aug 14, 2017 • 39min
Writing A Clojure IDE in Kotlin with Colin Fleming
We chat with Colin Fleming about developing a Clojure IDE in Kotlin, and how Clojure has taught him to think differently when resolving problems, even in Kotlin!
For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com


