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Dev Community interviews from the KotlinConf -26. We talked about the event, interesting talks, tech and the impact of LLMs in our industry

Thanks for the chat, James Cullimore, Wolf-Martell Montwe, Matthias Geisler, Volodymyr Galandzij, @eenriquelopez

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbyJ8qd-_qU

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https://peertube.wtf/a/snapp_technology/videos

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István Juhos May 22

It's a wrap! A huge thanks to all of the wonderful people in the community who made #KotlinConf unforgettable again! 🙌

See you next year / on another conf! 🤩

#KotlinConf26

Janusz Leidgens May 22

The keynote from Lena Reinhard (https://bsky.app/profile/lenareinhard.com) made my eyes water. She showed how there can be hope in a tech world where the big companies bow to a fascist and power and better AI is put above everything else. The talk was so brave and honest. It left me with a lot of questions to really think about. #KotlinConf26

Lena Reinhard (she/they) (@lenareinhard.com)

By night: Painter, writer, poet, singer, baker By day: VP Engineering, leadership & speaker coach, podcast host Ex-CircleCI, Travis CI, Neighborhoodie, CouchDB Proud: Bi & queer & poly & AuDHD I love trees & looking at water from below the surface

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Janusz Leidgens May 22

A conductor is a trained musician. So if you orchestrate a bunch of AI Agents make sure you know what the musicians are doing. Thanks @queencodemonkey for that talk. #KotlinConf26

István Juhos May 22

2nd day of #KotlinConf26, let's go! 🤩
(and the sunglasses are _clearly_ not for hiding tiredness 😅)

Sébastien Deleuze May 22

If you are at #KotlinConf26, see you today in the auditorium room 1 at 11:15 for my talk Idiomatic Kotlin applications with Spring Boot 4. https://kotlinconf.com/speakers/ce11156d-9a41-4f12-b236-3bdac0ee3a2a/

#spring #kotlin

Sébastien Deleuze | KotlinConf 2026, May 20–22, Munich

KotlinConf is the official Kotlin conference by JetBrains. It is a place for the community to gather and discuss all things Kotlin.

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Dmitry Kandalov May 21

As always, a great talk by Ross Tate at #KotlinConf26 about local lifetimes in Kotlin. You can watch it on the livestream https://www.youtube.com/live/MmwBJbzWbV0?t=18159s (while it's still there).

KotlinConf ’26 Day 1 Livestream: Keynote Included

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Marc Reichelt 🇺🇦May 21

If you want to try running all of this yourself, check out the code here:
https://github.com/mreichelt/run-kotlin-run
#kotlinconf26

GitHub - mreichelt/run-kotlin-run: Talk: Run, Kotlin, Run!

Talk: Run, Kotlin, Run! Contribute to mreichelt/run-kotlin-run development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Janusz Leidgens May 21

Having separate lines for vegan, fish and meat was really nice and efficient. I missed a dessert but apart from that nice food.
Got a Franzbrötchen at the Barista though, so I'm happy and ready for talks.
#KotlinConf26

Janusz Leidgens May 21

How to evolve features of a programming language. By Michail Zarečenskij.
Changing a programming language that is used by thousands of projects takes time and is very dangerous. I can't imagine how much work goes into deciding how a new Kotlin feature will look like.
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