How Kotlin Happened

An airhacks.fm conversation with Anton Arhipov (@antonarhipov)
about: Anton appeared previously on "#273 The Long Road to Java and
Kotlin", discussion about Anton Arhipov's artwork using circles and
a compass, attending the JVM Language Summit in 2011 where Kotlin
was introduced by JetBrains, initial skepticism about the need for
a new JVM language, JSR-305 Annotations for Software Defect
Detection by William Pugh, Kotlin's null safety features and
interoperability with Java, Kotlin's growth and adoption by Android
developers, Kotlin's multiplatform capabilities for targeting
native, JavaScript, and WebAssembly, Kotlin's potential beyond
Android development, Kotlin's core libraries for date/time,
serialization, and coroutines, the Kotlin compiler being
self-hosted and written in Kotlin, benefits of Kotlin Native for
serverless and IoT compared to GraalVM, Kotlin Multiplatform
support in the upcoming JetBrains Fleet IDE, designers using
similar UI principles across IDEs and applications

Anton Arhipov on twitter: @antonarhipov