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Stories with reporting from JetBrains Kotlin, ranked by what is gaining ground now. Each story links to the original articles.
Kotlin Toolchain 0.13 is presented as a unified configuration entry point for building JVM, Android, iOS, multiplatform, and server-side applications. The release notes recommend it for most new Kotlin Multiplatform projects.
Kotlin Toolchain 0.12.0 adds multiplatform library publishing and a preview of WebAssembly application support. It also brings command-line support for Compose Hot Reload.
Kotlin 2.4.20 is released, with the update available in recent versions of IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. The release notes provide the complete list of changes, but no individual feature is specified here.
Compose Multiplatform 1.12.0 adds tooling for AI assistants, improves web resource management, and gives developers finer control over desktop window states. The release is relevant to teams building cross-platform apps with the framework.
Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1 introduces optional separate compilation for Kotlin Multiplatform projects. The approach aims to align compilation results with IDE analysis and identify problematic calls to library code more consistently.
The project is extending its companions mechanism to support new code patterns and improve interoperability across platforms. It outlines companion blocks and extensions and offers preliminary migration guidance.
The piece explores using Compose for server-side rendering on the JVM, where it says other ecosystems are revisiting server-rendered interfaces. It places this approach alongside React Server Components, HTMX, and Phoenix LiveView.
Klibs.io reports a catalog of more than 4,200 Kotlin Multiplatform projects and adds discovery improvements and AI integrations. Its MCP server makes current library data available to AI development workflows.
Beginning with the named IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio releases, the Kotlin Multiplatform plugin will stop providing Swift-file editing, syntax highlighting and navigation between Swift and Kotlin. Running iOS applications and debugging Kotlin code on iOS will remain supported.
Kotlin's July update covers its 15th anniversary, a first public benchmark for AI coding agents, availability in BlueJ, and the Kotlin 2.4.10 release. It also highlights a Kotlin Multiplatform app competition at RevenueCat Shipaton 2026.
A report reviews Kotlin’s development over its first fifteen years, covering its ecosystem, adoption, and developer community. It looks back at which technology trends endured during that period.
The Kotlin discussion examines how a function that signs a document can fail even though its `Unit` return type does not expose an error result. Examples include invalid input, a closed signing window, or an unavailable database, motivating functional approaches to handling domain errors.
Findings from the 2025 State of Developer Ecosystem survey indicate that project requirements are usually the main reason developers change programming languages. Kotlin is an exception: respondents are described as moving to it because they prefer the experience of working with it.
