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State Of Kotlin In 2021

What is the state of the Kotlin programming language in 2021?  What are the new features?  Where are investments being made?  How is Kotlin being used?

We're going to explore these questions and more in this week's episode.


Chapters
00:00 Teaser
00:42 Intro
00:59 Kotlin Turns 11 This Year
01:29 Kotlin Today
03:45 Evolving In The Open
05:15 Kotlin In The JVM Ecosystem
06:15 Kotlin For Android Development
07:56 Evolution Of The Kotlin Language
08:42 3 Ares Of Continued Investment
09:33 Kotlin On The Web
11:49 Jetpack Compose
14:22 Kotlin Multiplatform
17:17 Where To Learn Kotlin?
21:30 In Summary


Show Notes

Kotlin Releases
https://kotlinlang.org/releases.html

JVM Ecosystem Report
https://snyk.io/blog/jvm-ecosystem-report-2020/
https://sdtimes.com/java/report-kotlin-becomes-second-most-popular-jvm-language/

Kotlin Language Proposals
https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP

New Kotlin Project Lead
https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2020/11/roman-elizarov-is-the-new-project-lead-for-kotlin/

Ktor
https://ktor.io/
Spring Boot
https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/
Quarkus
https://quarkus.io/guides/kotlin

Compose For Web Demos
https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-for-web-demos

Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
https://kotlinlang.org/lp/mobile/

Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries
https://github.com/AAkira/Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries

Learning Kotlin Playlists On Goobar
https://www.youtube.com/c/goobar/playlists?view=50&sort=dd&shelf_id=7

My freeCodeCamp Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9UC9DY-vIU

My Mastering Kotlin Book
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Kotlin-advanced-programming-techniques/dp/1838555722

Google's Android Developer Courses
https://developer.android.com/courses

My 9-Week Android Development Series
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEPZdzLLJH94Jk_Jz-cTUXYFoObPBH7KB

CodingInFlow
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_Fh8kvtkVPkeihBs42jGcA

CodingWithMitch
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNZZLhPuuRteu02rh7bzsw

Talking Kotlin Podcast
https://talkingkotlin.com/

Compose Academy
https://compose.academy/

Official Kotlin YouTube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCP7uiEZIqci43m22KDl0sNw


Contact
https://twitter.com/n8ebel
https://goobar.io/

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