Kotlin for fast development in iOS and Android

Programming / ToolsSoftware Architecture

October 12, 12:20
Room II

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Using Kotlin/Native, Kotlin/JVM, Kotlin/MPP for faster mobile applications development.

Kotlin/Native is an LLVM back-end for the Kotlin compiler, runtime implementation, and native code generation facility. In this talk we will present using Kotlin/Native in combination with Kotlin/JVM for quick mobile application development targetting two major mobile platform without common problems of unified porting layer, limiting using of unique platform features. We will also discuss Kotlin/Native features and the value Kotlin as a platform provides to mobile developers.

Nikolay Igotti

Team lead of Kotlin/Native, JetBrains

Nikolay Igotti works as Team Lead on Kotlin/Native at JetBrains. Previously used to work at Sun Microsystems, EMC, Oracle, Google on various system level software, such as HotSpot Java Virtual Machine, VirtualBox hypervisor and Native/Client runtime.

Interests: runtimes, virtual machines, memory management, language design and concurrency approaches.