Kotlin is becoming a language of choice for server-side application development. Null safety, 100% Java interoperability, coroutines, and many other features make Kotlin ideal for backend programming. We’re launching a series of webinars to help you to learn more about backend development with Kotlin or even try it for the first time. In the next few weeks, speakers from JetBrains, Google, and Confluent will cover three essential topics of backend development: event stream management with Kafka, running applications in the cloud, and backends with Spring Boot. Kotlin and Apache Kafka Reg

Welcome to Kotlin Heroes 5: ICPC Round!

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

Registration for Kotlin Heroes #4 is open! It’s time to save the date for the next round, which will take place May 29, at 14:35 UTC. If you’re already excited to sign up, you can head directly over to the registration page on the Codeforces website. And if you’d like to learn more about Kotlin Heroes, take a look at the blog post below. (more…)

Registration for the next Kotlin Heroes coding challenge is open! This will be the third challenge for programmers co-hosted by JetBrains and Codeforces. Register now and save the date, February 27, 13:35 UTC. What is Kotlin Heroes, and why should you participate? Kotlin Heroes is a collaborative project from JetBrains, the creator of the Kotlin programing language, and Codeforces, the most popular platform for programming contests. Previous Kotlin Heroes challenges have attracted more than 700 competitors per event. The main objective for the participants is to provide correct solutions t

JetBrains and Touchlab partner to drive Kotlin Multiplatform adoption in 2020 At JetBrains, we’re very delighted to partner with our good friends at Touchlab to increase the adoption of Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile technology in 2020 and beyond. Touchlab has released a toolkit for getting started with Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile technology. It’s a self-contained GitHub project that you can use as a starting point or for evaluating the technology. We had the chance to review it before its general release and can say that we’re excited to share it with the Kotlin Multiplatform community! The f

The KotlinConf session recordings have now all been uploaded to the website, along with the slides if there were any. You can search for a particular talk, or you can watch all of them one by one with the KotlinConf playlist on JetBrains TV. Additionally, all the pictures from the conference are now available! They have been collected into albums and uploaded to the website. (more…)

It’s turning into a nice tradition to broadcast KotlinConf. This year the community will have full access to the conference via the KotlinConf 2019 Live broadcast. We will be covering four of the presentation tracks scheduled for the conference, and the icing on the cake is that there will be some special content that’s only available online through KotlinConf 2019 Live! Tune in to watch 12 insightful interviews with the speakers over both conference days, moderated by Huyen Tue Dao, also a speaker at KotlinConf and the host of "Android Dialogs". We will begin our broadcast with the Keynote

2019 has been amazing for the Kotlin community with developments like the language of choice on Android, a wave of Kotlin/Everywhere events, Breakout Project of the Year at OSCON ’19… and the year is not over yet. Today we reveal one more wonderful opportunity for Kotlin lovers: get together for KotlinConf 2019 Global with your local user group! Organize a meetup for your community to watch the KotlinConf 2019 keynote and other sessions together, and JetBrains will support your community. If you’re not an organizer, keep an eye on future blog posts and follow @kotlinconf on Twitter, where

We are excited to announce the second round of our Kotlin Heroes programming contest taking place on the Codeforces platform. JetBrains is working once again with Codeforces to promote Kotlin in the competitive programming community, as well as to give the Kotlin community a platform to compare and hone their algorithmic programming skills. We hope that any of you who entered our first round on the 22nd of May this year will join us again now you know what to expect and try to improve (or at least hold) your standing on the leaderboard. You can see the standings from the first Kotlin heroes h

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 focusing on the potential of Kotlin on all platforms. Its goal is to help people learn the essentials and best practices of using Kotlin everywhere, be it for Android, iOS, back-end, or front-end. Join t

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 in number. Programmers all over the world are using Kotlin to create their server- and client-side web applications, Android and iOS mobile applications, and even data science. This is the first year