Podcast 057 - Michael Yotive on Kotlin
Michael Yotive likes Kotlin.
Show Notes:
- Kotlin
- JetBrains created Kotlin in 2011. They make a lot of good stuff, but we mentioned:
- Andrey Breslav is the father of Kotlin
- Scala
- Examples of Higher Order Functions in a bunch of languages, including Kotlin
- Swift
- Lambda expression introduced in Java 8
- Example of "when" used in Kotlin
- Also check out the Eric Potter episide #041 on pattern matching
- GDG Columbus meetup
- Michael described the "key to value" odd syntax in Kotlin, which appears to have been improved in Kotlin 1.1
- Kotlin classes are "final" by default
- Spring framework
- Book: Kotlin in Action by Dmitry Jemerov and Svetlana Isakova (with foreword by Andrey Breslav)
- Book: Shameless plug for another Manning book: AOP in .NET by yours truly
- Videos: Kotlin Fundamentals and Getting Started with Kotlin, by Kevin Jones
- Videos: Caster.io Introduction to Kotlin
- Try Kotlin right in your browser
- Meetup: Columbus Kotlin User Group (Twitter)
Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.
Theme music is "Crosscutting Concerns" by The Dirty Truckers, check out their music on Amazon or iTunes.
