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Special Meetup with Andrey Breslav, creator of the Kotlin Programming Language!

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Special Meetup with Andrey Breslav, creator of the Kotlin Programming Language!

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SPECIAL: Meet Andrey Breslav the Lead Language Designer for Kotlin, to hear about the languages that inspired Kotlin, and a special AMA session right afterwards!

AGENDA

18:00 - 18:15 - Drinks, snacks, & mingling

18:15 - 18:30 - Kotlin @ One Zero - Digital Bank

18:30 - 19:20 Shoulders of Giants: Languages Kotlin learned from / Andrey Breslav

19:30 - 20:15 Q&A with speaker

- Shoulders of Giants: Languages Kotlin learned from

New languages are inspired by existing languages: every generation learns from the previous one.
Kotlin is no exception: its design is based substantially on the designs of languages such as Java, Scala, C#, Groovy, Python, Nice, etc. This talk will explain which parts of the design are inspired by which languages and what Kotlin does differently in each case.

- Andrey Breslav

Andrey used to be the Lead Language Designer for Kotlin from the very beginning and till version 1.4 (ten years in total)

FOOD

Light sandwiches, light drinks and beer will be served courtesy of One Zero - Digital Bank

RECORDING

We are recording, as always, this meetup and uploading it to our YouTube channel (be sure to subscribe), BUT bear in mind, asking questions about stuff you don't understand is only possible when you attend the live event.

SPECIAL NOTES

Seats to this unique event are limited, so please RSVP only if you can physically attend!

In partnership with Java.IL, @TLVCommunity, @DevOpsDaysTLV and @CloudNativeIL! Many thanks to One Zero Digital Bank for hosting the event :)

See you there!

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