Today, we are excited to present the first milestone release of Jetpack Compose for Desktop, a modern UI framework for Kotlin that makes building performant and beautiful user interfaces easy and enjoyable. We invite you to take this technology preview out for a test drive, and we eagerly await your feedback! Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Delightful desktop UI development Compose for Desktop provides a declarative and reactive approach to creating user interfaces with Kotlin, with an API inspired by other modern frameworks like React and Flutter. At its core, Compose for Desktop

In this interview we speak with Jonathan Worthington (@jnthnwrthngtn), Edument team member and creator of Comma IDE. Comma is an Integrated Development Environment for the Perl 6 language, built on the IntelliJ Platform. Welcome Jonathan. Could you please tell us a bit about yourself and your role at Edument? I started at Edument in 2010, as the first employee. I spent my first five years at Edument working in Sweden, doing a mix of teaching and consulting. These days, I’m living in Prague, and have started a new Edument office here. I’ve been taking a much-needed break from teaching and h

It is our privilege to present to you this informal conversation between Nathan Adams and Erik Broes of Minecraft and John Lindquist of JetBrains. The interview covers a wide range of topics ranging from the informative to the entertaining. Enjoy. Follow Nathan (@Dinnerbone), Erik (@_grum) and John (@johnlindquist) on Twitter. How were you introduced to programming? Nathan: I started when I was 10. I saw people making bots on MSN messenger at the time and thought, “Hey that’s awesome, I want to try that!” It was lots of fun, but perhaps Perl wasn’t a great introductory language! Erik: Wh

At JetBrains we believe that supporting the open source initiative is a key to knowledge exchange and progress. We're proud to support OS projects with free licenses since 2007, with over 5000 licenses given out to date. Recently we've touched base with some of our colleagues from the Open Source world, to learn more about how they use our products to grow and get better. Perhaps this can inspire some of our readers to start something new and exciting in the world of OS. In this interview we speak with Robert Bateman, the Director of the Away Foundation, about their key projects, their coope

Please meet Maarten Balliauw, JetBrains Technology Evangelist for PHP and .Net products. 1. Hi Maarten, we would like to welcome you to JetBrains and thank you for taking the time to speak with us. We know you drink lots of coffee every day and Visual Basic 4 was the first programming language for you, but for those who don’t already know you, can you tell us a bit more about yourself? Now that I think about it, my first programming language probably was AMOS Basic on the Amiga 1200. Apart from that, I’ve been doing web development for a while, started with PHP when I was 16 and move

In this interview, JetBrains Development Academy expert Anton Arhipov has a chat with Igal Tabachnik. Igal recently joined the Academy, but has been a strong contributor to the JetBrains community for ages. He values clean code, test-driven development and continuous refactoring to lower complexity, reduce bugs and achieve better design. Members of the JetBrains Academy are recognized experts in various areas of software development. They contribute to Java and .NET communities by advocating development best practices through formal and informal publications and meetings, and serve as a ver

Please meet John Lindquist, the newest addition to JetBrains’ team of Technology Evangelists. John gave us a nice full-blown interview, so… don’t let me take any more of your time—read on and get to know him! 1. Hi John, we would like to welcome you to JetBrains and thank you for taking the time to speak with us. You are a highly recognized figure in the Flash world for example, but for those who don’t already know you, can you tell us a bit about yourself? Sure, from the tech side: I started programming back in high school by writing games on my TI-85 calculator instead of paying attent