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On July 19, 2011, at the JVM Language Summit, JetBrains announced Kotlin – a new statically typed programming language for the JVM. So, it has been here for almost 10 years. Ever since its conception in 2011, it’s been changing the way we work at JetBrains and beyond. None of the strides we’ve taken…
Kotlin 1.4.30 is now available. This is the last 1.4 incremental release, so we have lots of new experimental features that we plan to make stable in 1.5.0. We would really appreciate it if you would try them and share your feedback with us. We hope you enjoy testing out all these new updates, and p…
(Updated) The new backend is Stable and is itching to be made the new default. We need each of you to start adopting it, testing it, and giving us feedback so we can give it a final polish, let's look at how you can start using it. What is IR backend? After the compiler frontend is done analyzing t…
We’ve changed the release cycle of the Kotlin plugin, so that all major updates are now synced with IntelliJ IDEA releases. In this release: Inline refactoring is now cross-language: you can apply it to any Kotlin elements defined in Java and the conversion will be performed automatically. Now yo…
The event of the year is on! Join us on October 12–15 for 4 days of Kotlin as we host the Kotlin 1.4 Online Event. You can tune in at any point during the event to listen to the talks, chat with the team, and ask the speakers questions. In addition to this, there will be lots of activities and enter…
This is a transcript of “The State of Kotlin Support in Spring” talk by Sebastian Deleuze from KotlinConf: Do you find this format useful? Please share your feedback with us! TOC: Why Kotlin? (1:30) Spring❤️Kotlin. How much? (3:17) Gradle Kotlin DSL on start.spring.io (5:04) More DS…
