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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 1d

Hi @devoxx.com!
I’m at the @jetbrains.com booth this week.

Be sure to come say hi if you want to hear about Kotlin! 😬

IntelliJ IDEA, a JetBrains IDE @intellijidea.com · 2d

Hello @devoxx.com Belgium!
Drop by the @jetbrains.com booth to chat about Spring Data, Spring 7, and what’s coming next in IntelliJ IDEA.
🎤 At 18:20, @maritvandijk.bsky.social will share IntelliJ IDEA tips to boost your productivity.

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 1d

⚡ Want to increase the speed of your iOS builds? Try incremental compilation for Kotlin/Native, by adding this to your Gradle properties:

kotlin.incremental.native=true

This is an experimental feature, and we'd love to hear your feedback.

Learn more 👉 https://kotl.in/t37r88

Tips for improving compilation time | Kotlin

kotlinlang.org

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Kirill Rakhman @rakhman.info · 2d

Published a KEEP on suspend lambdas and anonymous functions: github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/...

github.com

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 4d

It can be counter productive as well 🙃

LLMs are differentiating more and more on how to “optimise” the prompts. I.e.

- XML vs yaml vs json
- All caps important instructions were good in gpt4 but bad on gpt5

So fine tuning a prompt for 1 model might detune it for another.

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Anton Arhipov @antonarhipov.bsky.social · 6d

Better immutability in Kotlin with Valhalla

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jam...

#kotlin #programming #jvm #jvmls

Better immutability in Kotlin with Valhalla #JVMLS

YouTube video by Java

www.youtube.com

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Ivan “CLOVIS” Canet @ivcanet.bsky.social · 6d

We now have a dedicated Bluesky account!

In the coming weeks we'll be automating release announcements there.

OpenSavvy @opensavvy.dev · 6d

Hey everyone!

This is the new account for OpenSavvy news.

Learn more about us at opensavvy.dev

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to meeting up there next year 😬

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 9d

This is so good! 😍

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Ivan “CLOVIS” Canet @ivcanet.bsky.social · 11d

The #Kotlin Multiplatform #MongoDB driver has made its first request!

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 11d

That’s so cool! Love it

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 13d

I’ll see if can provide an update on the issue with timeline, and expectations.

Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 13d

It’s not left to wither, it’s very actively being worked on at the moment.

Developing OSS is sadly very expensive, so we need to carefully consider and balance priorities.

We’re even growing the team working on this. www.jetbrains.com/zh-cn/career...

Senior Kotlin/Java Developer (Koog) - JetBrains \ JetBrains AI - 招贤纳士

www.jetbrains.com

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Suresh @suresh.dev · 14d

🎉 The Ktor @opentelemetry.io integration doc is now live - ktor.io/docs/server-... #kotlin #otel

Distributed tracing with OpenTelemetry in Ktor Server | Ktor

ktor.io

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Kotlin by JetBrains @kotlinlang.org · 15d

The Ktor roadmap for 2025–26 is here! Here's what we'll be working on:

🔶 API docs (OpenAPI is already in preview)
🔶 WebRTC Client with a Multiplatform API
🔶 Integration with Koog, the @jetbrains.com framework for building AI agents

Explore what’s next 👇 blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2025/...

The Ktor roadmap and previews | The Kotlin Blog

OpenAPI and WebRTC support have been available in preview since the Ktor 3.3.0 release. See what else is coming to Ktor!

blog.jetbrains.com

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 15d

You should be proud! Congratulations on writing a great book 👏👏

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John O'Reilly @johnoreilly.dev · 16d

Your First AI Agent in Kotlin | Tutorial www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAtU...

Your First AI Agent in Kotlin | Tutorial

YouTube video by Kotlin by JetBrains

www.youtube.com

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 17d

Doesn’t sound disgusting. Sounds amazing.

Salt, fat & acid is what you master to become a good chef 👨‍🍳

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 17d

Yes!!

a little boy is driving a toy car down a street .

ALT: a little boy is driving a toy car down a street .

media.tenor.com

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 17d

a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .

ALT: a man is laying on a couch wearing a blue shirt and making a funny face .

media.tenor.com

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 17d

Yes

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 17d

I mean we take our fries super serious. I have 2 deep fryers, one specifically for fries.

They’re not french fries.

We fry them twice, in ox fat. We have a mayonnaise law that allows for higher fat content in our mayonnaise.

😠😤

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KTConf @ktconf.bsky.social · 19d

Couldn’t be happier with yesterday’s 1st edition of KTConf.be.

Some quick stats:
We had a total of 59 Kotlin fans attend, including 8 speakers, of which 5 international ones.

Big shout out to Kunlabora, Triple D, DPG Media, PTV Logistics and of course @jetbrains.com for their amazing support.

KTConf 2025

Belgium's Premier Kotlin Conference

KTConf.be

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Sam Cooper @sam-cooper.bsky.social · 18d

Channel: messages are shared out so that each message is received by exactly one consumer.

Shared flow: messages are replicated so that each consumer receives its own copy of every message.

#kotlin #coroutine tips 💡

The diagram is from 📚 Kotlin Coroutine Confidence 👉 pragprog.com/titles/...

Diagram comparing channels and shared flows. When a stack containing three items is passed to a channel, three consumers each receive one item from the stack. When the stack of three items is passed to a shared flow, three consumers each receive a copy of the complete three-item stack.

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Simon Vergauwen @vergauwensimon.bsky.social · 18d

I’ll remember this 😒

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Alejandro Serrano Mena @serranofp.com · 18d

One of my outcomes of @ktconf.bsky.social is an improved version of my "FIR Tree" plug-in, that now can show the statements/implications in the Control Flow Graph

plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/23270...

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