The latest updates on all JetBrains products and topics
Kotlin Product Marketing Manager
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,…
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 …
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 Kotl…
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 …
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 synchroniz…
Registration for Kotlin Heroes #4 is open! It’s time to save the date for the next round, which will take place May 29, at 14:35 UTC. If you’re already excited to sign up, you can head directly over to the registration page on the Codeforces website. And if you’d like to learn more about Kotlin Hero…
Registration for the next Kotlin Heroes coding challenge is open! This will be the third challenge for programmers co-hosted by JetBrains and Codeforces. Register now and save the date, February 27, 13:35 UTC. What is Kotlin Heroes, and why should you participate? Kotlin Heroes is a collaborative p…
The KotlinConf session recordings have now all been uploaded to the website, along with the slides if there were any. You can search for a particular talk, or you can watch all of them one by one with the KotlinConf playlist on JetBrains TV. Additionally, all the pictures from the conference are now…
You can read this blog post in other languages: The new edition of Kotlin Census is here! By the end of 2019, more than 4 million people had used Kotlin. This is a great number of people, and of course, they have a great number of use cases behind them. We care deeply about making sure Kotlin deliv…
It’s turning into a nice tradition to broadcast KotlinConf. This year the community will have full access to the conference via the KotlinConf 2019 Live broadcast. We will be covering four of the presentation tracks scheduled for the conference, and the icing on the cake is that there will be some s…
2019 has been amazing for the Kotlin community with developments like the language of choice on Android, a wave of Kotlin/Everywhere events, Breakout Project of the Year at OSCON ’19… and the year is not over yet. Today we reveal one more wonderful opportunity for Kotlin lovers: get together for Kot…
