Kotlin 1.6.0 Released

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

Advent Of Code is currently ongoing and many people all over the world are taking part. We’d like to share some tips and tricks for solving the puzzles in Kotlin – we hope you find some of them helpful! Feel free to add your favorite tips or thoughts in the comments!. If you’re solving the puzzles in Kotlin, don’t forget to add the aoc-2021-in-kotlin topic to your repo to take part in our giveaway

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“Always bet on the future. If you’re not willing to, it’s hard to enjoy a life in technology.”Geoffrey Challen On November 23, we held a ‘Teaching Introductory Computer Science in Kotlin’ webinar, featuring Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the lead instructor for a course, which is now the largest introductory computer scien

The two latest versions of IntelliJ IDEA (2021.2 and 2021.3) were released with a bundled Kotlin IDE Plugin based on the previous stable version of the Kotlin compiler. This situation caused a lot of confusion in the community. We would like to apologize for the current situation and answer all of your questions regarding Kotlin support in IntelliJ IDEA to help you plan Kotlin and IDE updates for

A few months ago we held the second poll for the most awaited features in Kotlin. The main goal of this research was to find out what you thought about the relative importance of future Kotlin features and the diversity of user scenarios. This research will help us to prioritize our long-term language development plans. We’d like to thank everyone who participated and answered the questions! Be

The nautical advent-ure continues with the third day of AOC 2021, which we will, of course, once more solve in Kotlin! This time, it will involve wrangling binary numbers in all sorts of ways. Check out the solution and a detailed explanation on YouTube, or follow along as we explain our solution in this blog post! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF2PTnnOi8w Solving part 1 We’re on main

Announcing a new series of webinars about Kotlin for server-side! These will be held between December 14 and 21. Join the live sessions or catch-up on the recordings afterwards! In this webinar series, our speakers will host step-by-step live coding sessions to show you what kinds of benefits you can get from Kotlin for server-side and its rich ecosystem. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to

In this post, I’m going to walk you through my solution to the Advent of Code 2021 Day 1 task. Of course, I used Kotlin to solve it!  https://www.youtube.com/embed/76IzmtOyiHw The input for the task is a text file, where each line is a number that represents a measurement of the depth of the seafloor. The task is to count the number of measurements where the depth increases. For examp

Compose Multiplatform by JetBrains, the declarative UI framework for Kotlin, has reached version 1.0, which makes it ready for production use! Here are a few highlights that we hope will make you as excited about the release of this framework as we are: On desktop, you can now create Kotlin apps with beautiful user interfaces quickly and efficiently.On the web, you can now build production-qual