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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

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 survey last year, thank you! To make sure we are keeping our information up to date it would be really helpful for us if you could, please, do it again this year. We’ve added a few new questions and mod

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, navigation to source and context-aware refactoring. https://gradle.org/images/hello-kotlin-2.webm To view the video in Safari you may need to install the VLC Web Browser Plugin. In case you mis

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 even targeting embedded. Multiplatform and code sharing. Asynchronous and Concurrent Programming. Frameworks and Libraries in Kotlin. Of course, these are just some of the topics. We also want to kno

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, continue straight through the KotlinConf playlist on JetBrainsTV. (more…)

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. Kotlin 1.2 RC The first major announcement from the keynote is the release of Kotlin 1.2 Release Candidate. The new features in this release include the experimental support for multiplatform projects,

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 again: we’re interested in the up-to-date information, we’ve also added a few new questions and response options based on last year’s results. As such, we’re asking you if you could kindly give us two

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 partnered up with Realm to offer an Introduction to Kotlin full-day workshop on November 1st, followed by a Kotlin Talk Building Libraries for Kotlin, and dinner, hosted by Realm! The full day works

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 Introduction and Advanced and usually pans across two days. We've licensed it under Creative Commons and you are welcome to use it for yourselves to learn Kotlin and/or deliver your own workshop. And of course,

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…)