The road to Kotlin Symbol Processing
There’s a long back story to Java annotations. Introduced in 2004 for Java 5 and supported by the javac compiler since Java 6 in 2002, Read more
Announcing Krush – idiomatic persistence layer for Kotlin, based on Exposed
We've released a persistence library for Kotlin, you can find it on our Github. It’s a JPA-to-Exposed SQL DSL generator. Read more
How we use Kotlin with Exposed at TouK
Why Kotlin? At TouK, we try to early adopt technologies. We don’t have a starter project skeleton that is reused in every new project, we want to try something that fits the project needs, even if it’s not that popular yet. We tried Kotlin first it mid 2016, right after reaching 1.0.2 version Read more
Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 3 – Interface default method
Kotlin allows you to put method implementation in an interface. The same mechanism can be found in Java interfaces as default methods (and also Groovy Read more
Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 2 – Enum with instance method
The enum class with instance method in Kotlin is quite similar to its Java version, but they are look a bit different in the bytecode. Let's see the difference by writing some tests using Spock.What do we want to test?Let's see the code that we want to... Read more
When distributed monolith may work for you
The Distributed Monolith term surely has a bad press. When you read through blogs and conference talks I’m sure you’d better build a “traditional” monolith Read more
Testing Kotlin with Spock Part 1 – Object
The object keyword in Kotlin creates singleton in a very convenient way. It can be used for example as a state of an operation. Spock Read more
Hamming Error Correction with Kotlin – part 1
Hamming code is one of the Computer Science/Telecommunication classics.
In this article, we’ll revisit the topic and implement a stateless Hamming(7,4) encoder using Kotlin.
Hamming Read more
Using Kotlin extensions in Groovy
Extensions in Kotlin and GroovyKotlin and Groovy have mechanisms for extending existing classes without using inheritance or decorators. In both languages, the mechanisms are called extension methods. Their source code looks different, but generated by... Read more
Kotlin’s extensions for each class
Extensions in Kotlin are very powerful mechanism. It allows for add any method to any of existing classes. Each instance has (as in Java) equals, toString and hashCode methods, but there is much more in Kotlin.Example classesLet's define some simple cl... Read more