Talking Kotlin

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.