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Talking Kotlin podcast: interview with Roman Elizarov

Posted on June 7, 2021 by Stephan Oudmaijer

  There is a really interesting interview with Roman Elizarov, the language lead for Kotlin, on the Kotlin by JetBrains YouTube channel. Being a library developer in the past, Roman explains very clearly what the motivation is to include certain … Continue reading →

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Akka and Kotlin coroutines: ♡

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Joost de Vries

I’ve experimented with Kotlin and coroutines in programming Akka. And I must say, I really like the combination so far. But before I go into it some brief preliminaries for those who don’t know Akka and actors. Actors and Akka … Continue reading →

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Include runnable Kotlin code snippets in your WordPress posts

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Stephan Oudmaijer

JetBrains offers a great online environment, Kotlin playground, where you can play around and share Kotlin code fragments. This environment offers an option to embed code fragments from the Kotlin Playground into your website using an iframe. This does not … Continue reading →

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Kotlin 1.3 Released

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Jarno Walgemoed

Four days ago, Kotlin version 1.3 was officially released to the general public. This release adds a lot of highly anticipated features, amongst which are: Coroutines now stable: After being an experimental feature for quite some time, Jetbrains have now … Continue reading →

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Compiler Hinting with Kotlin Contracts

Posted on September 14, 2018 by Jarno Walgemoed

Kotlin’s built-in null-safety makes it easy for us to write code that’s less error-prone and less susceptible to the unwanted and unexpected NullpointerException at runtime. We can do a lot to make sure it doesn’t happen, but sometimes there’s no way around … Continue reading →

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