Category Archives: Kotlin

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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Let’s stay away from silver bullet claims

Posted on August 7, 2018 by Jasper Sprengers

Apparently everybody’s  favourite JVM language beat Java in a recent code-smell contest. The Register reported on a paper by Bruno Gois Mateus and Matias Martinez who had carried out an extensive survey of the rate of Kotlin usage in recent … Continue reading →

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Kotlin Release news: Kotlin 1.2.60, Kotlin 1.3 M1, Kotlin Native 0.8

Posted on August 5, 2018 by Jarno Walgemoed

Some good news coming from Jetbrains, who have been tirelessly working on expanding and improving Kotlin and the tools provided with it. In this post I’ll provide an overview of the latest news.

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Going functional and fullstack with Spring Fu and Kotlin

Posted on June 13, 2018 by Stephan Oudmaijer

Spring Fu is an experimental Kotlin micro-framework that makes it easy to create lightweight Spring-powered applications with functional APIs instead of annotations. Fu is for functional API, but that’s also a wordplay with the -fu suffix which means skill, the … Continue reading →

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