Cross Cutting Concerns Podcast

Podcast 057 - Michael Yotive on Kotlin

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Michael Yotive likes Kotlin.

Show Notes:

  • Kotlin
  • JetBrains created Kotlin in 2011. They make a lot of good stuff, but we mentioned:
    • IntelliJ
    • ReSharper
    • 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)

      • Michael Yotive is on Twitter.

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