What's New & Cool in Kotlin Tools
summary
Kotlin 1.2 tooling demos show concrete multiplatform work: expect/actual declarations link common code to JVM and JavaScript implementations, projects build with a Gradle-only multiplatform build and produce a metadata artifact plus platform artifacts, and tests run either on JVM or Node via Mocha after some setup. Serialization lives in kotlin x.serialization v0.2 with a compiler plugin, IDE adds refactorings, inspections, semantic highlighting and data‑flow analysis, and JavaScript incremental compilation targets a 1.6 release.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction to Kotlin
- 1:09Multiplatform project basics
- 2:36Expect and actual mechanisms
- 3:47API flexibility and design
- 5:25Leveraging existing libraries
- 6:49Build system and compilation
- 9:28IDE demo and testing
- 13:50IDE assistance for refactoring
- 16:46Serialization and Ktor
- 20:05Tooling and future support
- 22:44Style guides and inspection
- 25:18Idiomatic code conversion
- 29:03IDE highlighting and tips
- 32:20Refactoring and analysis
- 34:30Static analysis tools
- 36:04Build performance and closure
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