#Kotlin​ #Podcast​ In this episode, we talk to the new Kotlin Project Lead, Roman Elizarov, who tells us all about the Kotlin team, their areas of focus, and their plans for the future.

0:00​ Welcome to the new Talking Kotlin! 0:30​ Talking about the Sebastian in the room 1:06​ Back to the roots 2:27​ When Hadi first met Roman 3:09​ Roman and his new role 4:27​ Topics currently on Roman’s mind 6:50​ Roman reevaluating his own suggestions 9:05​ Revisiting old issues 9:57​ Distinguishing what should be in a library and what should be a part of the language 12:39​ Allowing more feature combinations 13:40​ Team focus for now 14:52​ How team efforts are distributed 17:23​ What is the Kotlin’s team size 18:17​ The way Kotlin team works 19:27​ Kotlin’s current focus areas 20:33​ On KMM becoming a product 21:59​ Kotlin Multiplatform – for Web? 23:39​ Roman’s Kotlin/JS & WebGL pet project 25:25​ What is next for Roman 26:00​ Kotlin’s strategy in regards to trends 27:31​ Prioritization of what to do next 29:39​ Feature requests: Why vs How 30:44​ A look into the future talk – https://youtu.be/0FF19HJDqMo​ 31:20​ Brilliant idea from Hadi 32:07​ Kotlin as a mature separate language 32:45​ Hadi’s most expected feature 33:52​ This is why we have Talking Kotlin on YouTube

A Look into the future by Roman Elizarov https://youtu.be/0FF19HJDqMo​ New Release Cadence for Kotlin https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/202...​