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Want to know more about Coroutines? 🤔 Vsevolod Tolstopyatov, the Kotlin Libraries team lead, will answer your questions in the next episode of the Kotlin 5 Questions series. 😍 Post your questions in the comments! ⬇️

Want to learn about Kotlin’s future? 🚀 What’s next for Kotlin and Spring? 👩‍🔧 What about compilation speed improvement? ✅ Will there be a vote for new features? You can find the answers to these questions and more in our latest blog post blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…

Want to build your first cross-platform mobile app but don’t know where to begin? 🤔 The first step is to set up an environment for a #KMM project! ✅ Check out this video to learn how to start sharing code between mobile platforms with Kotlin. 😎 youtu.be/mdN6P6RI__k

🖥️ Compose for Desktop: Milestone 4 is out, making it even more fun to build declarative UIs! It introduces a new window API, adds tooltips and pointer events, and much more! It even comes with a new Metal-based renderer for macOS! 💡 Learn all about it: blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…

Our YouTube channel has everything you need to know to learn more about the Kotlin 1.5.0 release! ⭐ New Language Features 📚 Standard Library Updates 🚀 kotlinx.serialization 1.2.0 Watch them all and subscribe for updates! youtube.com/c/Kotlin

Have questions about KMM but don't know where to find the answers? 🤔 Don't worry! Now you can find all the KMM FAQs together on one page! 🤩 Check it out and let us know what other questions you have. ✍️ ➡️ ➡️ ➡️ kotl.in/KMM-FAQ

🌐 Jetpack Compose advances to the browser! Our newest technology preview brings Google’s toolkit for building reactive user interfaces with Kotlin to the web. Take a look, and learn all about the first preview version of Jetpack Compose for Web! blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/20…

Kotlin 1.5 introduces new functions on collections: firstNotNullOf(OrNull). They transform each element one by one, and return the first non-null result. If no such result exists, firstNotNullOf throws an exception, *OrNull returns null. #KotlinTips

Do you remember how you were first introduced to Kotlin? 🚀 Please tell us about it! If you’ve just started learning Kotlin or if you remember what it was like, you could really help us out by completing this survey 👉 surveys.jetbrains.com/s3/t-k… 👈

Use kotlin.collections.ArrayDeque whenever you need the “double-ended queue”, Queue, or Stack functionality #KotlinTips

When you build your list using a builder (like buildList), the resulting list is effectively frozen. So you can’t cast it to MutableList and add elements to it. This is the same for Maps and other collections. #KotlinTips

Compile your library or commonly used module in the “explicit API” mode to enforce adding explicit visibility modifiers and return types: #KotlinTips