Community

When we say ‘Kotlin is everywhere’, we mean it. Kotlin works on all platforms, and it allows you to develop all types of applications. Developers are excited about Kotlin and hungry for opportunities to learn more. Now it’s time to bring it to your city with the support of JetBrains and Google. We’re happy to announce our new program, Kotlin/Everywhere – a series of community-driven events focu

Kotlin 1.0 was released 3 years ago. It has been an amazing journey and a huge achievement to get to where we are today: Kotlin/Native has opened up incredible possibilities for Kotlin usage on all platforms, Kotlin was announced as a first-class language on Android, and our KotlinConf has become a successful annual event. The potential for the language is immense: every year Kotlin users double i

Our Kotlin community is growing fast; the number of users has increased by almost 3 times this year. The feedback you give is very important to us both as newcomers who have just started using Kotlin in 2018 and as experienced Kotlin users. If you're still hesitant about using Kotlin, we would like to know why. Your responses are very appreciated and important to us too. If you filled out the su

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,

There are less than 10 days left until KotlinConf 2018. The event team has been working so hard over the whole of the last year to put together 2 days of sessions, and a full day of workshops for over 1200 attendees. Today there is one more exciting announcement to make for the event. We are happy to welcome you to the KotlinConf 2018 Live event. (more…)

If you haven't heard, KotlinConf 2018 is taking place in Amsterdam, October 3rd-5th! With just over 2 weeks left for the Call for Papers to close, this is your chance to share your Kotlin knowledge and story with the community at the Kotlin event of the year! Topics we'd love to hear about Kotlin/Native. Whether you're targeting iOS, creating native applications for macOS, Windows, Linux, or e

At last, they’re here! All KotlinConf session recordings are now available with their accompanying slides. Watch the talks you missed, and rewatch the ones you loved, all at your own leisure! While you’re at it, take a look at the newly published photo gallery and see if you can find yourself, friends, or colleagues. For a quick recap, check out the highlights video below and if you want, contin

Today is a great day for the Kotlin community. KotlinConf, the inaugural Kotlin conference, opens today, and we're really impressed that around 1200 attendees from all over the world have joined us in San Francisco. During the conference keynote, Andrey Breslav, the lead designer of Kotlin, has announced a few major developments around Kotlin, and now we're sharing the news with everyone else. Ko

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

KotlinConf is just around the corner, and if you haven’t checked out the great speaker line-up and sessions, you might want to do that now! We’ve got two days jam-packed with content around Kotlin, whether you’re doing mobile, desktop, server-side or web front-end development, there are lots of talks for you. And we are now making KotlinConf even more exciting with a dedicated workshop day! We’ve

We've just pushed major updates to a new repository we created that contains material for a Kotlin Workshop. In addition to code samples covering all major Kotlin topics, it has presentation slides, as well as exercises and questions for students to complete. This is material that myself and others at JetBrains are using for Kotlin workshops that we're delivering. It is divided up into Introducti

Since we’ve launched the Kotlin community support program at the beginning of 2017, the number of user groups has grown to 45+ and 2-4 new user groups are joining us every month. To find one at your location, please, check the full list at the community section of kotlinlang.org. Today we present the Kotlin user groups logo and a profile picture. (more…)