Louis CAD

You might think that Kotlin is the programming language of Android… Well, it's only partially true, and that's not even Kotlin's raison d'être. Kotlin 1.0 (2016) had experimental support for JavaScript, and 6 years later, we're sticking to it on the WEB, in the backend, on Android of course, and now on (native) iOS as well!

Come to learn why you might, or might not want to follow suit. This talk will be both an up to date introduction to Kotlin, and sharing our experience with it on the WEB.

Come to see some of the actions the community has done to push Kotlin further, and get inspiration on how to join or lead that movement for higher software quality and compatibility.

Wish SDK X supported Kotlin Multiplatform? Wish it had coroutines and Flows instead of callbacks? With some bug you encounter in the IDE was fixed? Wish that idea you just had makes it to Kotlin? Wish function as a service from cloud provider Y had first-class Kotlin support? Wish scripting in app Z supported Kotlin?

Well, YOU, can join the push to have more and better Kotlin APIs, and better Kotlin tooling, beyond IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio.

How? There's no definite answer, but you'll learn stories about how people are leading that push, all for higher software quality, and wider compatibility.

Do you know the story of how Kotlin got installed on all GitHub Actions runners? You'll learn about that, too.

Hopefully, that will inspire you enough to become an effective ally in the push for more Kotlin worldwide!