Just one month ago, we released Jetpack Compose for Desktop Milestone 1, the first public iteration of our modern declarative UI framework. We were delighted about how the Kotlin community has embraced Compose for Desktop. It was awe-inspiring to see people bring their Android apps to the desktop, re-implement the user interfaces of famous applications, and bring entirely new experiences to life with Compose for Desktop. Visit the Compose for Desktop landing page Since then, we have been hard at work to bring you the next version. Today we’re publishing Compose for Desktop Milestone 2, dedica

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

The recording of our September 16th webinar, Quasar: Efficient and Elegant Fibers, Channels and Actors, is now available on JetBrainsTV YouTube channel. In this webinar, Fabio Tudone shows how to use Quasar for creation of highly concurrent software. He covers basics of Kotlin syntax and shows how Quasar uses Kotlin strengths to offer concise and expressive API. Demo project is available on GitHub. The video includes the time stamps following the agenda announced: 00:55 - What are Quasar and Fibers? 12:22 - What are Quasar Channels? 15:50 - What are and why using Quasar Fibers? 21:15 - From

Join us  Wednesday, September 16th, 16:00 – 17:00 CET (10:00 – 11:00 AM EDT) for our free webinar, Quasar: Efficient and Elegant Fibers, Channels and Actors with Fabio Tudone. Quasar fibers bring true lightweight threads to the JVM as well as Erlang-like actors, Go-like channels and Dataflow programming: this means we can efficiently use straightforward blocking APIs and regular stack-based control flow rather than submitting to cumbersome and infectious async and monadic styles. After an introduction about fibers, their workings and Quasar's additional abstractions we'll explore how Quasar