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KotlinConf 2019 Recap
I started writing Kotlin at my workplace about seven months ago and when I heard about this year’s KotlinConf, I knew I had to be a part of it to learn what’s new that’s coming, what are some of the future plans that we need to prepare for in advance, and what are the things that I’m doing right and what needs to be improved in how I write apps with Kotlin.
I had the chance to buy the Early Bird ticket for the conf in around March and waited for it anxiously ever since. Now that I’ve attended my first ever KotlinConf, it really was something more than I expected, so here’s a brief recap of what I thought about the event and how impactful it was.
The Opening Keynote
This year’s event hosted 1700 people from around the globe and had some really interesting talks that are worth hearing more than once. One of the main topics that really shined throughout the event was Kotlin Multiplatform or KMP (simply meaning to share code between iOS and Android codebase using Kotlin) which had more than one talk simply dedicated to it and it was really convincing to see how some of the known names…
