Victor Kropp tells us the story of moving JetBrains Toolbox from C++ to 100% Kotlin. Victor (https://twitter.com/kropp) leads the Toolbox team at JetBrains, a small app that is the single entry point for developing with JetBrains IDEs, which you can download at https://www.jetbrains.com/toolbox-app/. It allows you to automatically download and update your IDEs, and open all your projects with a single click. Victor shares the story of how toolbox came to be – from its humble beginnings as an int...
Nov 28, 2021•45 min
We sit down with Marina Shishkina, team lead for the Release and Automation Team in Kotlin. Her team coordinates the whole release procedure for new versions of the Kotlin programming language. Marina shares her story of how she moved from being a Quality Assurance Engineer to leading the Release Team, working on increasing the quality of Kotlin releases.
Nov 11, 2021•38 min
In this episode we talk to Nat Pryce and Duncan McGregor about the new "Java to Kotlin: A Refactoring Guidebook" and their experience of helping companies and independent developers to migrate to Kotlin.
Oct 19, 2021•47 min
We talked to Ole Sasse and Gregor Zeitlinger, Senior Engineers at Zalando and leaders of their “Kotlin Guild”, about the weather in Spain and Germany, but more importantly, about how Zalando has successfully introduced Kotlin on the server-side. Ole and Gregor talk about the way that Kotlin engineers organize themselves inside Zalando, using their “Guild” model which allows engineers across different teams to share knowledge with each other and learn about new and more complex topics and librari...
Sep 27, 2021•35 min
In this episode, we sit down with Mohit Sarveiya, Google Developer Expert in Kotlin and Android, to talk about everything coroutines.
Sep 13, 2021•38 min
We sit down with Aydar Mukhametzyanov, Software Developer at JetBrains to talk about Kotlin and AppCode – the what, how, and why.
Aug 28, 2021•36 min
Together with the Kotlin community, we have prepared a special episode of the Talking Kotlin podcast! It is dedicated to Kotlin's 10th anniversary and features 6 guests talking about their journeys with the language. Check it out!
Aug 14, 2021•1 hr 5 min
In this episode, we’ll sit down with Ksenia Shneyveys, the Kotlin Manager for Education and University Relations at JetBrains, and talk to her about the current state and future of Kotlin in academia. Kseniya will tell us about the recent increase in institutions and educators teaching Kotlin, including adoption by Stanford, Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Chicago, and many other prestigious institutions.
Jul 17, 2021•32 min
Matt Anger, Senior Staff Engineer at DoorDash, walks us through how they have embraced Kotlin on Android, their server-side backend services, migrating away from their previous monolithic implementation, and going all in with Kotlin as DoorDash’s language of choice. Learn more about how DoorDash uses Kotlin: https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/12/doordash-building-scalable-backend-services-with-kotlin/ Read the story of DoorDash’s migration from Python to Kotlin for their backend: https://doo...
Jul 10, 2021•31 min
In this episode, we talk to Ivan Sanchez and David Denton, the co-creators of the http4k framework, which provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services with Kotlin using a functional programming approach.
Jun 22, 2021•39 min
In this episode, we’re talking to Nabil Hachicha and Claus Rørbech from the Realm team about the Realm Kotlin Multiplatform SDK project.
Jun 07, 2021•35 min
In this episode we talk to Jeffrey Van Gogh and Mads Ager from Google about the Kotlin compiler, covering everything from its basic structure and the infrastructure for building Android apps to new symbol processing approaches with KSP.
May 12, 2021•41 min
In this episode, We talk to Rahul Pandey an Android engineer at Facebook and a lecturer at Stanford about the specifics of his approach to teaching Kotlin for Android development at Stanford.
Apr 29, 2021•33 min
Arkadii Ivanov, Android Engineer at Bumble Engineering and Google Developer Expert for Kotlin takes us on a journey through his open-source projects MVIKotlin and Decompose. Find out about the Model-View-Intent architecture pattern, learn how Decompose helps write better declarative multiplatform user interfaces with Kotlin, and discover that time travel is possible – at least for debugging.
Apr 12, 2021•28 min
In this episode, guest John O'Reilly shares his multiplatform development journey. John takes us back to his roots, discusses his experiences with developing for multiple platforms, explains how Kotlin Multiplatform helps with productivity, and shares his open source projects.
Mar 14, 2021•43 min
In this episode, we talk to the new Kotlin Project Lead, Roman Elizarov, who tells us all about the Kotlin team, their areas of focus, and their plans for the future.
Mar 01, 2021•35 min
We chat with Vitaly about JAI Conversational Framework - a tool that allows you to build a conversational interface to your application without the need to use any of the big players on the market. We dicuss the benefits to the approach and why they chose Kotlin.
Jan 26, 2021•34 min
We sit down to talk to Nikolay Igotti, who's now leading the efforts of Compose for Desktop at JetBrains. We talk about why the need for a new UI framework for Desktop, how Compose for Desktop works, and what's planned for the future.
Dec 24, 2020•45 min
We chat with Sergey and Max about their use of Kotlin in Space. We cover the frameworks that they use, some of which were born out of Space. We discuss their adoption of Multiplatform before Kotlin Multiplatform even existed, as well as why they chose Kotlin and the benefits it provides them, along with the main issues they encounter.
Dec 14, 2020•47 min
We chat with the folks working on the Apollo library for GraphQL. We discuss what GraphQL is, where Apollo fits in to the equation, and why they decided to provide multiplatform support using Kotlin.
Nov 26, 2020•36 min
We chat with Nicolai about teaching kids programming with Kotlin, as well as his project, EngineEmi written in Kotlin, which tries to aid in this task
Nov 12, 2020•33 min
We sit down with James Ward from Google to discuss everything Google Cloud Platform and Kotlin. And as a bonus we dive into the past, and Kubernetes
Oct 14, 2020•47 min
We chat with Breandan about Differentials and Derivatives, and Maths in general. We look at where and how they can be applied to programming, as well as the Kotlingrad
Sep 30, 2020•35 min
Fritz2 is a Kotlin framework for developing front-end web applications. Written entirely in Kotlin and targeting JavaScript, Fritz2 takes a reactive approach to development. In this episode we sit down with the authors to learn more about the framework.
Sep 14, 2020•32 min
We sit down with the Kotlin Advocates at JetBrains to discuss life of a Kotlin advocate, the Kotlin 1.4 release, as well as the online Kotlin 1.4 event happening in October.
Aug 28, 2020•42 min
We chat with Vladimir about Compose from a user perspective. We go through the history of UI solutions that have been available for Android, and see how and where Compose fits in. We also briefly talk about Flow and how it can make a great companion to Compose.
Aug 14, 2020•35 min
We sit down with Josh Long to talk about life, the current world situation, and of course Spring and Kotlin. We discuss the adoption of Kotlin over the years, what the Spring team is doing to support Kotlin, and many other things.
Jul 28, 2020•48 min
We sit down with Erik to discuss gradient descents and how understanding this can lead to demystifying machine learning. We talk about the value of knowing how things work under the covers, as well as maths, functional programming, and many other topics, including why he chose Kotlin, and what he likes and dislikes of the language.
Jul 14, 2020•47 min
We sit down with the folks from the team at AWS that work on QLDB, to discuss what Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is, their usage of Kotlin, why they choose Kotlin over Java for this new project, and how their overall experience has been.
Jun 30, 2020•39 min
We chat with Roman Belov about the work he's doing at JetBrains with Kotlin for Data Science. We discuss the approach they're taking to work with the existing ecosystem as opposed to try and replicate it. How this is different from some of the other efforts under way and the direction in which they're moving when it comes to Data Science with Kotlin on multiple platforms.
Jun 14, 2020•33 min
