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Thanks to all attendees - I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

The github repo for the exercises is https://github.com/npryce/learn-you-a-kotlin

Please rate the session in the KotlinConf application. If you have specific feedback or suggestions for improvement, we’d love to hear them — you can post them here or as a direct Slack message to either of us (@natpryce @dmcg)

Hi @natpryce and @dmcg, just wanted to let you know that I found the workshop very useful and fun. So thanks a lot !

Thank you @legzo

Here is the Kotlin layout hack I mentioned in the workshop: https://gist.github.com/npryce/aaaf36bd925d2f4a1f180815b6517958

I’m not proud.

(Well, I am a little bit 🙂 )

What was the problem again ? IntelliJ autoformatting messing up when trying to lay out chained calls to collections ?

It allows you to put spacing into any expression that the IntelliJ formatter cannot mess with

We used it in test code to format data into a tabular layout

Could'nt you use this option from the formatter ?

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This preserves spacing between elements on the same line

When refactoring java to kotlin does it try and create pure/multiplatform kotlin as much as possible or is it intentionally just targeting the JVM?

Where

it

is IntelliJ? A good question - I haven't noticed either way, but then I haven't used Convert to Kotlin since we last ran this workshop.

Yes. Would be good to give us a headstart on multiplatform/native!

Code from the Kotlin 2019 workshop: https://github.com/npryce/learn-you-a-kotlin/tree/kotlinconf-2019

Thanks to all who attended and asked such interesting questions.

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Hello lovely people. You may be interested that @natpryce and I have published an O’Reilly book based on our experiences in this workshop. You can find more details https://java-to-kotlin.dev/ or join the new channel #java-to-kotlin-refactoring

And if you liked the book, you’ll probably like some videos that cover the material there, and more - https://www.youtube.com/c/DuncanMcGregors