Why Spring Loves Kotlin

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Spring Framework 5 plus Spring Boot 2 add first‑class Kotlin support and migration tooling to convert a Spring Boot 1.x Java+JS blog into a Spring Boot 2 pure Kotlin app running on WebFlux; build uses runApplication, Kotlin compiler plugin that auto‑opens Spring‑annotated classes, Reactor Mono/Flux types, and a Kotlin functional router DSL. Null‑safety annotations in Spring APIs remove many NPEs, coroutines interop maps suspend <-> Mono with benchmarks showing near‑reactor performance, while config‑properties and WebTestClient type inference remain known pain points.

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1. 0:00Introduction and motivation
2. 12:27Spring Boot 2 and Kotlin support
3. 27:27Unit 5 and testing improvements
4. 30:21WebFlux and reactive programming
5. 44:34Production readiness and next steps
6. 54:23Future features and roadmap
7. 1:03:00Multi-platform Kotlin and Q&A

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