Complaining about the ability to have complex build logic in Gradle is like wishing Java didn't have JNI. I too wish all problems were simple enough to not need escape hatches. And I wish I didn't have to take the escape hatch as often. But I'm glad the escape hatch is there.

Now more than half of Kotlin devs use it on the server-side!

I like this 12 minute step-by-step walkthrough by James Ward who shows ups how to use Spring, Kotlin, and Testcontainers to build and test a simple app.

youtube.com/watch?v=JnC0Vl…

Gradle Version Catalogs are an awesome feature but I was getting tired of duplicating the same catalog across many projects so I came up with a maybe terrible idea of having a Universe Catalog that has all the commonly used libraries:
github.com/jamesward/kotl…

It’s time to reboot software development.

We’re bogged down in a few inefficient patterns. And we finally have a way to do better.

fermyon.com/blog/it-is-tim…

Trying to promote AI tech without using the AI tech to do the promotion, is embarrassing. If your AI is so amazing, then actually use it for the things. Ditto other AI domains. If your AI writes code, how did it write the code that writes the code?

I wanted to check out the new Testcontainers support in Spring so created a little demo of Spring + Kotlin + Testcontainers, based on a demo Josh Long and I did at KotlinConf. Definitely some great improvements in the past few months! Check it out:
youtu.be/JnC0VlRej3Y

Here’s an opinion: saying a framework is opinionated isn’t helpful. Every framework is opinionated. It’s much more helpful to describe what the strong opinions are and why.

Hear me out... Android Emulators + Testcontainers.

👋 Welcome, Forbes!

'By using Kotlin Multiplatform we can share over 80% of our business logic across iOS and Android. This lets us roll out new features simultaneously on both platforms with a small fraction of the engineering effort'

forbes.com/sites/forbes-e…

Kinda pedantic but I think it makes more sense to be 'founded' on a Pilot than a Copilot.
ie. they missed they opportunity to tell developers they are now the Copilot and AI is the Pilot.

Talking about Kotlin at the Boulder JUG tonight was super fun! Now I’m hanging out at the hotel bar with some folks here for a construction safety conference. They are amazing people but holy dear gawd I’m grateful I’m in software.

I've been out of DevRel for almost 2 years now and completely forgot how much work it is to prepare a talk.

Are you curious about Kotlin by JetBrains? James Ward will discuss Kotlin for Java Developers at next week's Boulder and Denver JUGs. You know it's gonna be awesome!

⛰️ Boulder: meetup.com/boulderjavause…
🏀 Denver: meetup.com/denverjavauser…

/cc Boulder JUG DenverJavaUsersGroup #java #kotlin

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🚀Kotlin Multiplatform is Stable in Kotlin 1.9.20 and production-ready!
Learn about the evolution of KMP and what the Stable version brings. Discover how it can streamline your development process, and explore new learning resources to get started quickly:
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Another update to the 'Limits of Loom performance article': thanks to Simon Hartley, it turns out that #Java 's Exchanger does a surprisingly good job! #Kotlin 's still about 50% faster, though.

Find out more here: softwaremill.com/limits-of-loom…

The biggest problem with the 'database query in UI code' thing is that it didn't go far enough. If you are gonna collapse 3 tiers to 2, why not just go to 1 tier?