Kotlin

Kotlin is designed so that there’s no such thing as a “static member” in a class. If you have a function in a class, it can only be called on instances of this class. If you need something that is not … Continue reading →

We told you about Kara Web Framework a while ago. It is written in Kotlin and relies on type-safe builders. It doesn’t have to be the only web framework for Kotlin, but the general principles seem good, so I wrote … Continue reading →

This week I’m speaking at GeekOUT Tallin, and my colleagues Mikhail Vink and Sergey Karashevich are holding a 15-minute DEMO on Thursday, telling you about cool stuff in JetBrains’ IDEs. The topic of my talk is “Language Design Trade-Offs (Kotlin … Continue reading →

Kotlin M5.3 brings support for IntelliJ IDEA 13 and some new features for you to check out. We are moving towards powerful runtime support, including reflection and other framework-enabling features. This milestone marks our first steps in that direction. IntelliJ … Continue reading →

Another update of Kotlin comes out today. Welcome Kotlin M5.2.  Support for New IntelliJ IDEA Koltin M5.2 supports (in fact, requires) the recently released IntelliJ IDEA 12.1. The Kotlin IDE improvements include: Kotlin classes in the Class Hierarchy view. Just … Continue reading →

Point-free style is a big trend in modern functional programming: it allows to manipulate functions without mentioning their arguments which makes the code concise and compositional. Here is an example from Wikipedia: mf = (. map) . (.) . filter … Continue reading →

We announced KAnnotator back in December: it helps you against NPEs in Java and makes your Kotlin code nicer. Today we are pleased to announce a KAnnotator Plugin for IntelliJ, version 0.1. It is available from the plugin repository. Why … Continue reading →