ISSUE #382

26th of November 2023

Announcements

Kotlin Developer Survey #2
Our colleagues at JetBrains asked us to let you know that the Kotlin Developer Survey is still open. Please, consider supporting JetBrains and filling it. Your contribution will certainly influence the future development of Kotlin.
surveys.jetbrains.com

Kotlin 1.9.21
Kotlin 1.9.21 is out! Check out the full list of features included in this page.
github.com

Articles

Secure REST API with Ktor and JWT Access Tokens
In this first article from the new series, Piotr Wolak shows how to implement a simple REST API with Ktor and secure it with JWT (JSON Web Token) access tokens.
codersee.com

Become a Koin Community Lead : Empower the Kotlin Community with Your Passion and Knowledge
Koin is looking for Community Leads. If you are interested in supporting them, check out this article.
blog.cloud-inject.io

Have You Truly Used Generics? Understanding Kotlin’s Powerful Type System
Nirbhay Pherwani analyses in deep generics in Kotlin, and why they are such a powerful mechanism.
levelup.gitconnected.com

Reactive Programming in Kotlin - SharedFlow
Donovan LaDuke takes a look at SharedFlow, and analyses the key differences when it is compared to Flows.
dladukedev.com

Source, Binary and backward compatibility rule them all
Marco Signoretto wrote about binary compatibility, why you should care, and how not to break it with a Kotlin focus.
proandroiddev.com

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Videos

Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm?
In this not 100% Kotlin video, Richard Feldman asks himself why isn't functional programming the norm, and gives an interesting point of view of functional programming and the ecosystem in general.
www.youtube.com

Extracting Data from Maps - More Data-Oriented Programming in Kotlin
In this new video, Duncan McGregor focuses on how to extract data from maps and other arbitrary paths in Kotlin.
www.youtube.com

Compose App Dev with new Kotlin Tooling? – Fleet + KMP + Q&A!
Sebastian Aigner and Marton Braun chat in this Twitch about the new tooling available for Kotlin Multiplatform developers.
www.youtube.com

Libraries

Sheet Happens!
Sheet Happens is Gradle plugin that lets you localize your Android / KMP application by generating XML string resources from Google Spreadsheets.
github.com

cachemap
A read-optimised concurrent map for Kotlin Multiplatform.
github.com

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