Kotlin 1.4 Online Event, Day 1: General Overview
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Kotlin 1.4 claims concrete wins: 1.2M active developers and nearly 6M IDE edits this year, a new type-inference that fixes ~300 issues, a 4.5× faster front end prototype and IR backends that halve JS binary sizes in some cases, plus tooling wins—code completion is fast for ~70% of cases and highlighting opens large files up to three times quicker. New features include SAM conversions, explicit-api mode and KMM alpha; infrastructure experiments like shared indexes cut indexing by up to 75%.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 9:41Opening Keynote by Kotlin Team
- 51:03Contributing to Kotlin by Egor Tolstoy, Product Manager in Kotlin
- 1:06:40Q&A with Egor Tolstoy on Contributing to Kotlin
- 1:16:25New Language Features in Kotlin 1.4 by Svetlana Isakova, Developer Advocate in Kotlin
- 1:36:35Q&A with Svetlana Isakova and Stanislav Erokhin on New Language Features in Kotlin 1.4
- 1:45:26Kotlin 1.4 in IntelliJ-based IDEs: Boosting Quality and Performance by Anton Yalyshev, Product Manager in IntelliJ Kotlin plugin
- 2:08:39Q&A with Anton Yalyshev on Kotln 1.4 in IntelliJ-based IDEs
- 2:15:50A Look Into the Future by Roman Elizarov, Team Lead in Kotlin Language Research
- 2:56:20Q&A for Day 1
