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In this post you’ll find the answers to 10 questions about Kotlin’s future.

The recordings of our 1.5.0 release celebration event are out and available for you on the Kotlin YouTube Channel. 🔔 Subscribe to the channel updates and stay up to date with the Kotlin future events! Recordings and slides  Our amazing hosts – Svetlana Isakova and Sebastian Aigner – gave a talk about the 1.5.0 updates, and Roman Elizarov presented on the future of Kotlin. Af

Take part in the Kotlin event and send in your questions for the Kotlin team! May 25, 2021

The “Kotlin New Users Survey” will help us understand the ways people are introduced to Kotlin, and what is important to them during the first steps of their journey. We want the experience in the early stages to be a good one for the adopters. Getting feedback from the community is useful for us to improve our materials and identify where exactly beginners expect these materials to be. If you’ve

Stack Overflow is an essential resource when it comes to learning something new about programming. It is easily searchable, used by millions of people, and extremely popular in the software engineering community. During the Kotlin Census 2020, 55% of respondents mentioned Stack Overflow as a helpful learning resource. However, sometimes we hear that finding Kotlin-related information on Stack Over

We continue our series of Kotlin for server-side webinars. Between February 18 and March 18 we will host 4 webinars to explore applied software development with Kotlin on server-side through live-coding sessions. Speakers from JetBrains, VMware, Confluent, and Oracle will cover reactive programming, asynchronous applications with the Ktor framework, building microservices with Helidon, and other a

Like most startups, at the beginning of its journey Faire was looking for an efficient solution to base its tech stack on. Here is their story of starting with Java and migrating to Kotlin in a year.

DoorDash uses Kotlin for all their backend services and infrastructure. Hundreds of engineers work with Kotlin across a massive system spanning multiple repos. Two years ago, they made the bold move to split their existing legacy Python monolith into multiple backend services, which they developed in Kotlin. This upgrade resulted in tremendous improvements: Better software performance. Сleaner c

Kotlin is becoming a language of choice for server-side application development. Null safety, 100% Java interoperability, coroutines, and many other features make Kotlin ideal for backend programming. We’re launching a series of webinars to help you to learn more about backend development with Kotlin or even try it for the first time. In the next few weeks, speakers from JetBrains, Google, and

The Kotlin 1.4 Online Event materials are available for you to watch any time. Recordings of the talks, and Q&As are available on the event web page, along with slides. You can watch the recordings in order using the Kotlin 1.4 Online Event playlist Kotlin 1.4 talks At the time of writing, the recordings from the Kotlin 1.4 playlist have been viewed more than 120 thousand times in total. The

TL;DR From now on, we will release Kotlin 1.X every six months. These releases will be date-driven, not feature-driven. The Kotlin IDE plugin will be released simultaneously with Kotlin, and on top of that — every time IntelliJ IDEA is released. Major IDE features will arrive in releases synchronized with IntelliJ IDEA. Why the new cadence? Since Kotlin 1.0 came out in 2016, we’ve built our rel