This is a guest blog post from Paul Merlin software engineer for Gradle The recently released Gradle 5.0 includes the Gradle Kotlin DSL v1.0 which is now ready for widespread use. We want you to enjoy a build authoring experience with the benefits provided by Kotlin’s static type system in Intellij IDEA and Android Studio: auto-completion, smart content assist, quick access to documentation,

As we work on Kotlin, we implement many features that help build idiomatic and high-performing APIs. We've been dreaming of seeing a Web framework that utilizes these features to the max. Today, we can finally say we've built that kind of framework! Please welcome Ktor, which has just reached 1.0. Ktor is a Kotlin framework for building asynchronous servers and clients in connected systems. It is

  You can read this blog post in other languages:   Today we are releasing Kotlin 1.3 together with a set of accompanying libraries, build tools, and learning materials! We develop Kotlin to be a good tool for all application developers, at all scales and on all platforms. In Kotlin 1.3 coroutines graduated to stable, making non-blocking code easy to read and write. Scalability ha

We're proud to introduce Kotlin 1.3-RC, the latest preview and release candidate for 1.3.0. This release mostly contains critical bug-fixes related to the new language features. Other notable changes and announcements include: Ktor is wrapping up its API and looking forward to your feedback. Ktor is a framework for building web applications, HTTP services, mobile and browser applications. It's e

fun main(args : Array<String>) { println("Hello Kotliner!") println("Click this green button at the top right!") } Oh yes, this is a runnable Kotlin snippet embedded right in the blog post. Note that you can not only run it, but you can also change the code: // The code below doesn't compile. Add only one char to make it runnable again fun main(args : Ar

Greetings Kotlin fans! Ever since we announced interoperability with Objective-C for Kotlin/Native, we’ve been getting lots of questions about IDE support that would allow working on projects that mix Kotlin/Native and Swift/Objective-C. Today we are happy to announce that we are working on a Kotlin/Native plugin for AppCode! AppCode is our macOS-only IDE designed for iOS/macOS developers. It al

We are pleased to announce Kotlin/Native v0.6 (Valentine’s Day release) of our toolchain. This is a major update, including the following features: Support for multiplatform projects in compiler and Gradle plugin Transparent Objective-C/Kotlin container classes interoperability Support first embedded target (STM32 board) Kotlin 1.2.20, Gradle 4.5 and Java 9 supported Smaller WebAssembly binaries

Greetings Kotlin fans, A New Year is coming and we are truly happy to make the last announcement of 2017. We’ve just released the update for Kotlin/Native plugin for CLion. It brings support for Kotlin/Native platform v0.5 which was published recently. Your feedback is very important for us. Please report bugs and issues in the Kotlin bug tracker. Your questions are welcome on the #kotlin-native

Kotlin/Native is a brand new technology that compiles Kotlin directly to machine code and produces executables that can run without a virtual machine. At KotlinConf 2017, we announced a preview release of development tools for Kotlin/Native. While we have IntelliJ IDEA for working with Kotlin, Kotlin/Native integrates with technologies from the native world such as Clang and LLDB support. That's

Hello! Every year we run the Kotlin Census survey so we can get the latest feedback from you, and how you are using Kotlin in your projects. If you still don’t use Kotlin, we would like to understand your reasons why and your opinion of the language is exceptionally important for us as well. If you filled out the survey last year, thank you, it would be really helpful if you could please do it ag