Kotlin Weekly #-470!

Koog: Building and Scaling AI Agents – Join Our Livestream Series (blog.jetbrains.com) Join JetBrains on Aug 12 & 18 for a two-part livestream series exploring Koog in action with live demos and expert insights.

Ship, Share, and Win: The Kotlin Multiplatform Award at Shipaton 2025 | The Kotlin Blog (blog.jetbrains.com) Ready to build a Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform app for a share of $55,000? JetBrains is sponsoring a new ‘Kotlin Multiplatform Reach Award’ at the RevenueCat Shipaton, the world’s biggest mobile hackathon.

[SPONSORED] Free Webinar: Kotlin Coroutines for Modern Development (webinar.kt.academy) See why coroutines win: structured concurrency, efficient scheduling, cancellation, Flow, virtual-time tests, multiplatform. For devs, PMs, tech leads. Register now.

Introduction to Structured Concurrency: CoroutineScope & CoroutineContext (medium.com) Amanda Hinchman kicks off a deep-dive series with a practical look at CoroutineScope and CoroutineContext, laying the groundwork for building safe and predictable coroutine hierarchies in Kotlin.

Why I use Kotlin/JS and Express to build websites instead of Ktor (alexstyl.com) Alex Styl shares why he prefers Kotlin/JS over Kotlin/JVM and Express.js over Ktor for building web startups.

A Journey with KSP and KotlinPoet (medium.com) Muhammad Sarim Mehdi builds Kombinator, an annotation processor that auto-generates all constructor parameter combinations for Kotlin data classes using KSP and KotlinPoet.

Deploying a Kotlin-based remote MCP Server to Google Cloud Run (johnoreilly.dev) John O’Reilly details how he deployed a Kotlin-based MCP Server from the ClimateTraceKMP project to Google Cloud Run using the Jib Gradle Plugin.

Kotlin Context Parameters (medium.com) Ralf Stuckert explores Kotlin context parameters for writing cleaner extension functions with multiple named receivers and improved readability.

Setting up Compose Multiplatform previews (zsmb.co) Márton Braun explains how to set up Compose Multiplatform previews using the Kotlin Multiplatform IDE plugin, including steps for new and existing projects, plus workarounds for Windows and Linux users.

Claude Code vs Junie (www.youtube.com) Duncan McGregor compares Claude Code and JetBrains Junie for complex refactoring in IntelliJ, finding Claude surprisingly effective despite compilation hiccups.

Code Path Tracer (github.com) A zero-config method tracing tool for JVM and Android tests that visualizes execution flow, helping you debug complex logic and touch events with clarity.

byte-size (github.com) Kotlin multiplatform units for representing SI and IEC bytes and bits

TestBalloon (github.com) TestBalloon is a Kotlin test framework, built from the ground up for Kotlin Multiplatform and coroutines.

Pokemon App (github.com) A Pokemon application built with Compose Multiplatform featuring MVI architecture, type-safe navigation, and dynamic theming.

KiteUI (github.com) A Kotlin Multiplatform UI Framework inspired by Solid.js that uses the native view components of each platform.

KtMongo (gitlab.com) KtMongo is a MongoDB driver for Kotlin, inspired on KMongo.

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