020: Talking Kotlin with Hadi Hariri

A tonne of folks have been asking for a show on Kotlin. We got the best person in the business to take us through what could possibly be our new hope.

Show Notes

• No tabs in Intellij [hadihariri.com]

Jetbrains products

• Java – IntelliJ
• .Net – ReSharper
• CI server – TeamCity
• Issue tracking – YouTrack

Smaller IDES

• Web/Node.js – WebStorm
• Python/Django – PyCharm
• Ruby/Rails – RubyMine
• C++ – CLion
• ObjectiveC – AppCode

Hadi’s 3 tips for Intellij

1. Don’t use the Mouse! Mouseless driven development [vimeo.com]
2. Cmd Shift A – look up other commands
3. Don’t use the Find box to find things: Prefer shortcuts like Cmd O/Cmd Shift O

Kotlin

• Kotlin – An open source JVM targeted language
• Jake’s doc on Using Project Kotlin for Android [docs.google.com]
• Execution in the kingdom of nouns [blogspot.com]
• Kotlin : a new hope – talk by Michael Pardo [realm.io]
• Tony Hoare saying Null is his Billion dollar mistake [wikipedia.org]

Getting started with Kotlin

• Kotlin Tutorials [kotlinlang.org]
• Kotlin Koans [kotlinlang.org]
• Try Kotlin online : online & interactive [kotlinlang.org]
• Kotlin in two minutes [youtube.com]
• Kotlin Slack channel [slack.com]
• Books:
  • Antonio’s book on Kotlin [leanpub.com]
  • Kotlin in Action [manning.com]

Kotlin tools

• Anko [github.com]
• Kotlin Android extensions [kotlinlang.org]

Sample projects with Kotlin

• Palette Helper [github.com]
• Cinesapp Android Kotlin [github.com]
• Kotlin demo [github.com]

Misc

• Killing off Wasabi: Part 1 [fogcreek.com]
• Killing off Wasabi: Part 2 [fogcreek.com]

Awesome picks:

Hadi Hariri

• The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik’s Cube [http://blogs.microsoft.com/]
• JavaOne Conference [oracle.com]

Kaushik Gopal

• When looking for solutions to a problem, search the source code first before StackOverflow
• When working on a feature, change your launcher activity (temporarily) to the one you’re working on

Donn Felker

• git – assume unchanged [stackoverflow.com]
• The Martian Audio Book [amazon.com]
• Antonio’s book on Kotlin [leanpub.com]
• Also check out his blog [antonioleiva.com]

Contact us:

• @hhariri [twitter.com]
• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker [twitter.com]
• @kaushikgopal [twitter.com]