Curious… anyone planning on attending Kotlinconf in person this year in Amsterdam?

Sounds awesome! But I will not be able to 😢

On the meetup page, every event since July has the same description (though I guess it's possible Jordan Wild gives the same Android presentation each month). Are the meetups still happening? If so, can anyone give an overview of the typical proceedings?

We are still having the meetup. I've been late this month in figuring out a topic, so I haven't had a chance to update the description. This month we're going to talk about using Kotlin on the backend with Spring Boot. The meetups are pretty laidback. We come and get to know each other, talk about anything going on with kotlin, have then have the presentation.

Yep, we're still holding the Kotlin meetup on Thursday at 6:30pm at SimpleNexus (2600 Executive Parkway #300, Lehi, UT)

Okay, cool. I work at Xactware, so we'll see if I can make it.

Hey !!!!

From the Meetup, here are the links to coroutine guides: Doc on Coroutines: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/coroutines-guide.md Coroutines and UI: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/ui/coroutines-guide-ui.md Reactive Streams and Coroutines: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/master/reactive/coroutines-guide-reactive.md

Great job on the coroutines presentation 👍

Just a reminder that tonight's meetup will be at a new location: https://www.meetup.com/Kotlin-Utah/events/ggfnjqyxnbxb/

Hey guys! I work at a start up in Pleasant Grove called Redlist, and we’ve got some awesome Kotlin projects coming up. If you are interested in joining our team or know somebody who is checkout this job posting: (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1381721642) Just in case we have a job posting for iOS too: iOS (https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1381880363)

I've been thinking about switching to a JVM based language for backend development, the biggest contenders being Kotlin or Scala. Would anyone like to weigh in on which would be better to learn in Utah? I've some experience in Scala, but mostly Ruby and Javascript for the last 9 years. TIA

Good afternoon, all! I've been using Kotlin for server-side development for a couple of years now, but only recently discovered the Kotlin slack.

Is there still someone running a Kotlin Utah meetup group? Earlier links now seem to be defunct

The Kotlin Utah meetup has been discontinued.

Good afternoon, all! There may not be an active KUG in Utah right now, but I want to at least post here regularly to demonstrate that there are Utah companies and developers where Kotlin development is very much active.

By way of introduction, I'm a Sr. Software Engineer at Domo in American Fork. In a nutshell, Domo is a Business Intelligence and Management software platform. We write web and mobile software, and maintain a lot of data-heavy core services responsible for data ingestion, transformation, and streaming.

Brief Story of Kotlin @ Domo: - First championed by a handful of enthusiasts about 2-3 years ago as a better alternative to Java for our server-side development - Adopted by a couple of teams as our preferred server-side language - Several new Spring-based services implemented 100% in Kotlin - Currently used by ~10 developers on 3 teams (that I know of). - Adoption has not been free of impediments - a couple of key Kotlin developers and advocates have departed, and broader adoption within the company remains a real challenge. There also exist some detractors who do not want to see any change to accepted Java code and design patterns. - All things considered, Kotlin has made a significant difference in improving the readability and maintainability of code in our Kotlin services, and has eliminated a lot of Java boilerplate. Wherever we rewrite existing Java code with Kotlin, we consistently eliminate about 2/3 of the overall number of lines that were previously required.

Good morning! Anyone have an interesting project you are working on this week?

For my part - implementing some load tests in Kotlin for an existing Java project. This project involves Apache Kafka, and I'm interested to explore a reactive kafka + kotlin integration

I've used the Project Reactor kafka library in the past a little bit, but we ultimately did not include it in a production project. https://projectreactor.io/docs/kafka/release/reference/

if anyone has dabbled with a Reactor, RxJava, or Kotlin Flow + kafka integration, I'd be very interested in your story.

Good morning! What news from the Utah Kotlin scene?

I recently read this article https://www.raywenderlich.com/2780058-domain-specific-languages-in-kotlin-getting-started. I haven't made use of DSLs for any of my projects, but am going to give it a go this week for a simple use case.

Good morning, all! Been playing around with kscript for the last few days. Doing some manual E2E testing with the ktor client (also my first time using that) of a complex API that doesn't have automated IT yet. Been using intellij with the kscript --idea option to generate a temporary project. Anyone know if this is still the most productive approach for kscripters?

About 30 seconds ago I learned there was a kscript annotation processor. Gonna try it

Good morning, Utah. Completed a new feature on a Java service a few days ago, and have been missing Kotlin. As part of my testing for the new feature, I created some new CLI dev tools for my team to use in the past couple of days using Clikt, and I've been really impressed. https://ajalt.github.io/clikt/

So far, it is the best argparser / cli library experience I've had in any language.

The last CLI I wrote in my current position used Node.js/Typescript with the Commander.js library. that was a pretty good experience, and there are a lot of JS libraries available. Kotlin / Clikt has the benefit of running a bit faster and being able to share models with the backend

Nice! That does look like a pretty nice library.