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Kotlin at 60fps - Write Hot Code Without Losing Your Cool

Collin Flynn

October 6, 2020

About the talk

Kotlin has indisputable benefits. It's terse, expressive, and addresses some of Java's oldest issues at the compiler level. For much of the code we write, the runtime performance difference is negligible.

Occasionally, however, a hot code path will reveal the truth about primitive boxing, immutables, capturing lambdas, or delegates. Do we have to abandon Kotlin to write faster code?

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Collin Flynn

Principal Software Engineer

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