Opening Keynote
summary
Kotlin 1.4 is released Aug 17 and the ecosystem claims measurable growth: 1.2 million active developers, nearly 6 million people editing Kotlin this year, ~200,000 new GitHub repos, 30,000 on Slack and 90,000 Twitter followers. Tooling work targets flow: IDE completion appears fast in 70% of cases and large-file highlighting is up to 3× faster. Compiler work shows concrete wins: frontend 4.5× faster, new type inference, JS IR cuts bundle size up to 2×; KMM, Ktor and Kotless are in active alpha development.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Kotlin ecosystem overview
- 3:11Community growth and contributions
- 5:44Developer experience and IDE performance
- 8:41New Kotlin compiler
- 12:23Kotlin for server-side
- 16:23Kotlin Multiplatform
- 20:26Kotlin/JS and WebAssembly
- 20:49Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
- 25:54Kotlin's future directions
- 27:43Closing and overview
