Melbourne Kotlin Meetup August 2022

Clear your calendar - It's going down! Melbourne Kotlin Meetup is back on August 11st, and you're invited to join us. Block-AfterPay Office (Level 8, 100 Queen Street Melbourne Vic 3000) is our meeting spot for the night.

Come one, come all, bring a guest, and hang loose. This is going to be fun!P.S. Please RSVP to this event by Monday 9th of August in order to attend.

## Venue

• The main entrance is off Queen St next to the newly opened Rustica restaurant
• Please make your way through the ground lobby to the lift entrance on the right and select level 8
• Once arrived on level 8, please make your way to the reception to sign in on Envoy

## Agenda

Our agenda is roughly:

• 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM: Food & drinks
• 6:30 PM: Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin
• 7:15 PM: Embedding Golang in a Kotlin app: how to do it and why you shouldn't
• 7:50 PM: Wrap up, food & drinks
• 8:30 PM: Close

## Talks

Zenab Bohra- Introduction to Functional Programming in Kotlin

This is a beginner friendly session for anyone interested in learning about the basics of FP in Kotlin.
Currently at Cash my team uses a library called Arrow for doing Typed Functional Programming in Kotlin. In this session we will run through some examples of Arrow types, look at when to use them and go through some best practices.

Zenab is a developer at Cash with a passion for solving world’s problems using Tech, developing novel Crypto products, whacky ideas and horse back riding.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zenab-bohra-47849b43/

Charles Korn - Embedding Golang in a Kotlin app: how to do it and why you shouldn't

In this talk, we'll go on a journey from the safe waters of Kotlin, through the murky depths of C and out to the bay of Golang (and back again). And as we venture through this tortured metaphor, I'll discuss how to interoperate with native code from a Kotlin/JVM app, share some real-world experience with Kotlin/Native, try to justify why I even attempted to do this and explain why you almost certainly shouldn't try to mix Kotlin and Golang yourself.

Charles is a lead developer and consultant at Thoughtworks in Melbourne. He spends his time helping teams solve meaty technical problems, with a particular interest in developer experience, large-scale systems and cloud-native infrastructure.

He’s the maintainer of a number of open source projects, including Kaml, which adds YAML support to kotlinx.serialization, and Batect, a tool built on top of Docker that makes it easy to quickly and consistently run your development and testing tasks everywhere.

Meetup profile: https://www.meetup.com/members/182909361/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleskorn1/
Website: https://charleskorn.com/