Kotlin 1.4 Online Event, Day 2: Kotlin libraries
summary
Coroutines get concrete wins: reconstructed coroutine stacks in IntelliJ 2020.1 with inspectable locals, a new debugger “coroutines” tool window, reduced coroutine library footprint by ~30% and CPU use down to 1/4 in some workloads; Flow gains StateFlow/SharedFlow (mutable and read-only) with replay/cache, subscription-count hooks and sharing operators; I/O and Java interop get runInterruptible and BlockHound integration; serialization ships as kotlinx.serialization 1.0: multiplatform, default-values supported and type() inline for generics; a new kotlinx-datetime offers Instants, LocalDateTime, periods and timezone-aware conversions.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 10:40Coroutines Update by Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, Team Lead in Kotlin Libraries
- 33:58Q&A with Vsevolod Tolstopyatov on Coroutines Update
- 45:31kotlinx.serialization 1.0 by Leonid Startsev, Software Developer in Kotlin Libraries
- 1:12:08Q&A with Leonid Startsev on kotlinx.serialization 1.0
- 1:22:48News From the Kotlin Standard Library by Svetlana Isakova, Developer Advocate in Kotlin
- 1:46:00Q&A with Svetlana Isakova and Ilya Gorbunov on News From the Kotlin Standard Library
- 1:55:35Introducing kotlinx-datetime by Ilya Gorbunov, Software Developer in Kotlin Libraries
- 2:21:34Q&A for Day 2
