Three Android developers. Zero Swift experience. A two-month deadline.At KotlinConfersations’2026, Suhyeon (Leah) Kim shares how her team used KMP to build and ship a brand-new iOS app despite having no iOS developers on the team.
The Kotlin ecosystem is full of powerful tools and frameworks — and in this episode of Talking Kotlin, we’re diving deep into Exposed, JetBrains’ Kotlin SQL library, which recently reached its 1.0 release.Sebastian and Márton sit down with Chantal from the Exposed team to explore what Exposed is, where it came from, and how it…
In this KotlinConf’26 interview, Huyen sat down with Jake Wharton to talk about the past, present, and future of Kotlin and software development. And, of course, a bit about AI. https://jakewharton.com
Every time you tap through a subway gate in New York City, you’re using Kotlin Multiplatform! In this episode, we sit down with Paweł Kwieciński from Masabi to explore how they brought a decade-old Java codebase to KMP, powering ticket validation across mobile apps, embedded devices, and backend systems for public transit agencies worldwide. Resources:…
Sebastian and Márton host a special, audio-only episode where they discuss everything that’s new and noteworthy in the Kotlin 2.3 release. They touch on new language features like the unused return value checker and explicit backing fields, previously added features that became stable in this release, new APIs for time and UUID handling in the…
Sebastian and Márton talk to Vadim Briliantov, the Technical Lead for Koog: an agentic framework built by JetBrains. We learn about what AI agents are, and why building them in Kotlin with Koog is a great choice. We also discuss all the different ways AI agents can connect to other systems and your existing code,…
Sebastian and Alex chat about the kotlinx.rpc project, in a special episode recorded in the Munich JetBrains office. They explore all the different components of the library, how you can use it to define RPC services and clients, integrate with Ktor and existing gRPC definitions, and more. While the library is still experimental, it’s already…
Sebastian and Márton chat with Marcin Moskała about coroutines. Resources: Coroutines Mastery course Coroutines | Kotlin Documentation kotlinx.coroutines Taming Asynchronous Beasts | Marcin Moskała Coroutine Debugging in IntelliJ IDEA | Alexey Merkulov Lifecycles, Coroutines and Scopes | Alejandro Serrano Mena Collect Like a Pro | Manuel Vivo Untangling Coroutine Testing | Márton Braun JetBrains/lincheck –…
Sebastian and Márton chat with Rod Johnson, the creator of the Spring Framework. Rod tells the story of how Spring was born more than two decades ago, and shares his recent journey of coming back to the JVM and discovering all the fun of being a newcomer to Kotlin. Resources: Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and…
Sebastian and Márton are joined by Denis Borisevich from RIEDEL Communications, and learn about how Kotlin is used behind-the-scenes to power media, sports, and entertainment broadcasts watched by millions around the globe. Tune in for an exciting story about how Kotlin, Ktor, and Arrow are being used in production for a use case where robust…