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
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.
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
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
We chat with Eugenio from Clue about sharing Kotlin code across multiple platforms and how Kotlin has helped them at Clue. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Speaking with Mario Zechner about libGDX, Game Development and benefits of using Kotlin with gaming. For links to show notes, please visit talkingkotlin.com
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
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
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
