ISSUE #188

8th of March 2020

Hello Kotliners! Today is International women's day and we are celebrating it with a special edition. Here's your selected feed for the upcoming week, with content done by women Kotliners.

Announcements

Kotlin 1.3.70 Released
The new version of Kotlin is here, 1.3.70. There aren't any major announcements, but this incremental version includes improvements to existing functionality, fixed issues, and some experimental things to try
blog.jetbrains.com

Articles

Kotlin Sealed Classes in Action
Katie Levy shows us how we can easily used Sealed Classes to solve a real-world problem: displaying a different screen on an app, depending on some internal logic
medium.com

Putting down the Golden Hammer: Part I, whose hammer is this?
Huyen Dao has started a series part-transcription, part-extension, and part-continuation of the talk she gave at KotlinConf 2019 about her journey and learnings from and with Kotlin.
www.randomlytyping.com

Lessons Learnt with Kotlin: Using inline classes
An inline class is a special type of class defined in Kotlin that only has one property. Rebecca Franks explains in this article the lessons she learned after working with them.
riggaroo.co.za

Videos

KotlinConf 2019: What the F(p) is Kotlin?
Shelby Cohen & Katie Levy took on the challenge of introducing Kotlin and Functional Programming to our company. This is about how they overcame the obstacles associated with a large company structure of having a common tech stack.
www.youtube.com

Collections and sequences - Kotlin Vocabulary
Kotlin Standard Library offers two ways of working with containers: eagerly - with collections, and lazily - with sequences. Florina Muntenescu speaks in this video about the difference between the two and when should you use them.
www.youtube.com

KotlinConf 2019: Bridge the Physical World
Qian Jin has been involved with IoT for a while. With Kotlin/Native, we can now compile Kotlin code to run on various platforms, including Raspberry Pi. This talk aims to show you the possibility of using Kotlin to control GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi and other experiments
www.youtube.com

Podcast

International Women's Day Special - Idiomatic Kotlin
In this special episode recorded for International Women's Day, Had speaks with Svetlana Isakova, Florina Muntenescu, Huyen Tue Dao, and Christina Lee about all the Kotlin things.
talkingkotlin.com

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Thanks to Florina Muntenescu for the initiative and JetBrains for their support!