KotlinConf 2019: Closing Panel

KotlinConf 19 Closing Panel with members of JetBrains and Community.

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Getting the timestamps done for this panel recording was a fun thing to do last year, so here they are again!

0:30 Did you have a nice event?
2:00 Introductions
5:35 Is going to abandon the type erasure at some point, perhaps just for the JS and Native targets, if not on the JVM?
7:14 Is package-private visibility coming to Kotlin?
8:06 (Twitter) What's the long term roadmap for Flow?
8:55 Some KEEP proposals (e.g. 155 or 87) aren't getting input from JetBrains, the KEEP process is kind of a black box. Are you aware of this problem, and are you planning to change it?
10:38 Jacoco is not working very well with recent Kotlin versions, and neither is Android Studio's coverage accurate. Can we expect improvements for code coverage in Kotlin?
12:25 (Twitter) When is Compose gonna be ready for production?
13:52 Can we expect to have another event like the Kotlin 1.1 event back in 2017, where the community was asked to vote for features they wanted?
15:18 (Twitter) Do you think Kotlin is a good first language for education?
17:57 Coroutines are nice on Android. Are there any plans to improve long-running background operations on the platform?
19:22 (Hadi) Ana: do you have any regrets after porting over an application to Kotlin/Native?
21:00 (Someone with a fake name) Kotlin is really great for Gradle scripts, much better than Groovy. Are there any plans for JetBrains to take over the development of kscript?
22:35 How should community organizers reach out to people outside the Android and JVM server-side space, and attract, for example, web developers to events? Is there a story for KotlinJS on its own, or is it being pushed only as part of the multiplatform story?
26:17 Do you have any major features planned for Kotlin 1.5 yet?
26:38 If you could direct eyeballs (and contributors) to a (perhaps unknown) Kotlin project, which project would that be?
29:50 If you could start again with Kotlin from scratch, what would you change?
31:12 When can we get rid of the experimental annotations around coroutines which are all over our codebase?
32:40 (Twitter) When are we going to see some real love for kapt? It needs to be faster!
33:27 Are there plans for putting resources such as case studies together about why Kotlin is a good server side language, to help drive adoption in companies that aren't using it there yet?
35:27 Multiplatform is really compelling, but we have to switch IDEs a lot while developing it. Are there plans to move the support for all platforms into a single IDE?
36:28 (Twitter) Google folks: we have Observables and LiveData for databinding, is Flow also going to be supported?
38:12 What's your favourite feature that exists in another language, but not in Kotlin?
39:49 Currently, the standard library provides suspension intrinsics, to implement your own runtime, which the kotlinx-coroutines library does. Are there plans to move kotlinx-coroutines into the language, or will you keep coroutines unbundled, which keeps the possibility of multiple implementations of the runtime?
41:35 Any news about kapt support in the IntelliJ build system, which still doesn't support it?
42:31 (Twitter) What's the story for theming in Jetpack Compose, for example, how should I implement dark mode in it?
43:47 How do we sell Kotlin/Native from multiplatform to iOS developers?
45:55 (John Doe again) Koin has really nice injections via property delegation. Could we possibly get this in Dagger at some point in the future?
47:15 You said that Compose will be release to beta sometime next year. Is there a plan of what will make it into this beta?
48:15 Are LiveData and Observables, both of which can be used with databinding, going to be unified at some point?
49:19 Kotlin with React doesn't feel like a good experience. Are there any good Kotlin libraries for web UI development, perhaps something like Compose?
51:59 A GitHub survey said that older developers are into languages like Swift and Kotlin with strong types. But if you talk to developers in their twenties, they mostly love JavaScript. How do we evangelize Kotlin to a younger audience?
54:32 Are you planning to support parallel operations in the standard library, such as a parallel forEach?
55:03 Modern versions of Java have pattern matching, will we ever see this in Kotlin?
56:03 What is your dream that can come true thanks to Kotlin, and when are you gonna do something about it? :)
58:17 (Zac) Do you think the prioritization of Kotlin multiplatform and Kotlin/Native in your efforts is hurting the community in other areas. For example, kapt and dokka seem unmaintained, and immutable collections are unfinished as well.
1:00:14 (Twitter) ktor feels a bit neglected. Is it just a tech demo, or is it something you want people to use?
1:01:10 Can we get a Kotlin standard library implementation for SecureRandom, so that we can use it with multiplatform?
1:02:40 Is there any effort going into integrations such as GitHub's jump-to-declaration features, or their vulnerability search feature?
1:03:40 So, about hard boiled eggs. Why don't you have a few soft boiled eggs too?