Kotlin 1.6.20 Released

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Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile plugin for AppCode just got a huge update. We’ve got some exciting news to share with you! Support for All Kinds of Multiplatform Projects For a long time, the only supported project model in our plugin was the Gradle DSL with a special iOS/macOS part. Now we support opening Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile projects with regular Xcode projects/workspaces and Kotlin parts con

UPD: Given the current circumstances, we have decided to postpone Kotlin Heroes until further notice. Thank you for your understanding. Kotlin Heroes is our Kotlin-only contest hosted by the Codeforces. It is a great way to play around with Kotlin’s features, learn something new, and practice using the language by solving fun problems. It is great for programmers of any level! Everyone has a ch

It’s been an intense start to the year! Check out this Kotlin Monthly Digest for January to get a glimpse of everything we’ve been working on: The first preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 is out! Introducing Kotlin 1.6.20-M1! It brings the following changes:  Defining context-dependent declarations in Kotlin/JVM with prototype context receivers.Faster builds with parallel compilation of a

We invite you to join us for the livestream Kotlin Basics Track Tour With a JetBrains Academy Expert, featuring Dmitry Sitnikov, JetBrains Academy Expert and consulting software engineer. The livestream will start at 3:00 PM UTC on Wednesday, February 16.  Use these links to save the date in your calendar: Outlook Calendar or iCal: Add to CalendarGoogle Calendar: Add to Calendar I

Alexey Zinoviev presented the webinar “Object Detection and Image Recognition with Kotlin,” where he explored a deep learning library written in Kotlin, described how to detect objects of different types in images, and explained how to create a Kotlin Web Application using Ktor and KotlinDL that recognizes cars and persons on photos. He has decided there is more that he would like to share with you on the subject, and so here is an extended article.

The new AWS SDK for Kotlin was announced at AWS re:Invent in December 2021. Using the SDK, you can build Kotlin applications that work with Amazon S3, Amazon EC2, DynamoDB, and more. The SDK is currently in preview and is expected to become stable soon. The SDK was designed from the ground up to support the Kotlin language and its best practices, providing Kotlin developers with a familiar and

About Advent of Code Advent of Code is an annual event that publishes fun, holiday-themed puzzles every day from December 1 to December 25. Thousands of people each year take part in Advent of Code.  We at JetBrains and on the Kotlin team have been taking part in Advent of Code for several years now. As a proud sponsor of Advent of Code 2021, we encouraged our community to join us in solving

Following the release of Kotlin 1.6.0, the 1.6.0 version of the kotlinx.coroutines library is out. Here are the main features it brings: A new API and multiplatform support for kotlinx-coroutines-test introduce a common solution for writing portable tests with suspending functions.Support for the new Kotlin/Native memory manager makes multithreaded coroutines for Kotlin/Native available out of

Victor Kropp, the Team Lead for the Toolbox team at JetBrains, shares the story of adopting Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform on desktop. The JetBrains Toolbox App is the single entry point for developing using JetBrains IDEs. It serves as a control panel for tools and projects, and makes installing and updating JetBrains IDEs quick and easy. Originally started in 2015 as a hackathon project, t