Kotlin Weekly #-483!

Evaluating Kotlin in Real Projects (blog.jetbrains.com) Urs Peter shows how to move from Kotlin experiments to production by building new services or converting Java apps while avoiding common “Java-ish” pitfalls.

Kotlin Multiplatform @ Google (developer.android.com) The Android team has launched a new Kotlin Multiplatform landing page that explains the technology and highlights how Google and JetBrains collaborate across the ecosystem.

Kotlin Multiplatform Survey 2025 (surveys.jetbrains.com) JetBrains has released a survey to learn more about your experience as a user of the Kotlin Multiplatform ecosystem. Consider contributing if you have some free time.

[SPONSORED] Marcin Moskala on Talking Kotlin – exploring coroutine design, structured concurrency, and lessons from other languages. (www.youtube.com) Talking Kotlin hosts Marcin Moskala for a conversation on coroutine philosophy and implementation. He compares approaches across languages, explains Kotlin’s structured concurrency model, and highlights the design choices that shaped kotlinx.coroutines. A clear, insightful talk for Kotlin engineers who value depth.

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Stop Bugs Before They Happen: Compile-Time Guardrails with Kotlin Context Parameters (blog.kotlin-academy.com) Vadim Briliantov shows how to use Kotlin’s context parameters to build custom compile-time guardrails that prevent bugs before they happen.

Zero-Cost Abstractions in Kotlin: Inline Functions and Value Classes (carrion.dev) Ignacio Carrión explains how Kotlin’s inline functions and value classes enable safer, faster, and allocation-free code with zero-cost abstractions.

Is “Don’t Keep Activities” Legit? (medium.com) Paul Klauser explains why “Background process limit” is a better way to test Android process death than “Don’t keep activities,” which often leads to misleading results.

Parsing Pricing with Claude - Checkout Kata in Kotlin Part 4 (www.youtube.com) Duncan replaces a fragile regex parser with an LLM-generated solution for pricing rules in his Checkout Kata in Kotlin series, refining it with a JSON library.

A Common Mistake when working with Kotlin Flows (www.youtube.com) Stevdza-San explains a common mistake when dealing with Kotlin Flows, and how to prevent it.

Compose Stability Analyzer (github.com) Jaewoong Eum Compose Stability Analyzer 0.4.1, bringing real-time Compose stability insights to Android Studio with full Kotlin Multiplatform support and CI-ready stability validation.

Kthot (github.com) A typesafe Kotlin DSL for JavaScript. Write, reuse and interact with Javascript without WASM.

KMP Wheel Picker (github.com) KMP Wheel Picker provides a modular wheel picker for Compose Multiplatform.

Kotbase (github.com) Kotlin Multiplatform library for Couchbase Lite

Heron (github.com) Heron is a Jetpack Compose adaptive, reactive and offline-first bluesky client.

App Platform (github.com) The App Platform is a lightweight application framework for state and memory management suitable for Kotlin Multiplatform projects from Amazon.

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