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Talking Kotlin

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A bimonthly podcast that covers the Kotlin programming language by JetBrains, as well as related technologies.

Episodes

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. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Oct 16, 201732 min

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 28, 201735 min

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

Sep 14, 201733 min

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! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Aug 28, 201735 min

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

Aug 14, 201739 min

Kotlin at Trello

We sit down with Huyen and Vishnu to discuss Kotlin adoption at Trello, how the process went, the technologies the use in combination with Kotlin and the overall experience and thoughts on the language. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Jul 28, 201733 min

Functional constructs with Jorge Castillo

We talk to Jorge about how he's been adopting functional programming to improve the architecture of his Android applications, and also discover that explaining what a monad is on a podcast can be quite challenging, to say the least! For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Jul 14, 201731 min

Heroku with Joe Kutner

We talk to Joe Kutner of Heroku of deploying Kotlin application to the web and what it took for them to provide support for Kotlin. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com.

Jun 28, 201729 min

Kotlin at Hootsuite with Neil Power and Simon Tse

We speak with Neil Power and Simon Tse from Hootsuite about their use and adoption of Kotlin in Android and other areas they are investigating into expanding with Kotlin. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com.

Jun 14, 201733 min

Kobalt with Cédric Beust

We catch up with Cédric Beust and discuss many things, but above all we talk about Kobalt, the build system he's created from scratch in Kotlin, and actively maintains. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com.

May 26, 201734 min

Kotlin at Pinterest with Christina Lee

We speak with Christina Lee about her running across the country, the adoption of Kotlin at Pinterest, her perspectives on Kotlin and finally her love for peanut butter and jelly. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

May 12, 201735 min

Corda with Mike Hearn

Mike Hearn joins us to speak about why he chose Kotlin as his next programming language as well as his new venture which is Corda, a distribute ledger with a difference For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Apr 28, 201733 min

Coroutines with Roman Elizarov

We speak with Roman about coroutines and what Kotlin brings to the table when it comes to asynchronous programming, how it's implemented in Kotlin, the differences between coroutines and RxJava, Callbacks and other asynchronous programming models, and were it all this fits in when it comes to concurrent programming. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Apr 14, 201731 min

Gradle Script Kotlin with Rodrigo Oliveira

We speak to Rodrigo (and an uninvited rooster) about Gradle Script Kotlin, the reasons behind it, what benefits it provides us as build script engineers, the challenges in maintaining two scripting languages and where Kotlin fits in the future of Gradle. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Mar 28, 201730 min

Using Kotlin for a cross-platform IDE with Kirill Skrygan

We speak with Kirill Skrygan about using Kotlin to develop a cross-platform .NET IDE which mixes the world of .NET with the JVM. Kirill talks about how they use Kotlin's DSL capabilities to create a custom protocol and testing scripts. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Mar 14, 201729 min

libGDX with Mario Zechner

Speaking with Mario Zechner about libGDX, Game Development and benefits of using Kotlin with gaming. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Feb 28, 201731 min

Spring Boot with Sébastien Deleuze

We chat to Sébastien about his work with Spring Boot, where Kotlin fits in, what features it brings for Spring Boot developers as well as other things he's working on. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Feb 14, 201734 min

Catching up with Jake Wharton

We speak to Jake Wharton about his interest in Kotlin and the adoption process at Square. We cover one of Jake's favourite features which are extension functions and properties and how RxBinding creates these by parsing Java source code. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Jan 26, 201734 min

A Chat with Andrey Breslav

In this first episode of Talking Kotlin, we speak with Andrey Breslav, team lead and father of Kotlin. We discuss his background, why he decided to work on Kotlin, the challenges of designing a language, how things are done on the team, as well as a peek into what’s in store. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com

Jan 12, 201733 min
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