Early Read on Kotlin Community
I like programming (at work) and learning for fun. You'll often find me cooking and working on my house in my spare time.
I want to get into the Kotlin community to accelerate my learning. Where should I go?
Well, this was handy, https://kotlinlang.org/community/. I went through each of these resources. Unless stated otherwise, I got set up on July 14, 2026.
Slack. I filled out the form and waited some number of days. I was invited to join on July 10, 2026. I quickly found my way to the #http4k channel. It's a little busier than the #reitit channel of the Clojurians Slack.
X. I followed the Kotlin account. It seems to post more than once per day.
Kotlin Blog. I use NetNewsWire and subscribed. Looks like there are a few posts a week.
Reddit. Also joined. I expect I'll use this less than all of the above. That has more to do with me not being a big Reddit user than anything else.
StackOverflow. I started watching the tag. I can't think of the last time I landed on StackOverflow.
YouTube. Subscribed. I watched the KotlinConf '26 keynote back in June. It was a good overview of what's happening now in the language.
Talking Kotlin. I use Overcast as my podcast player. I subscribed. It looks like the first episode was published January 11, 2017 and there are 145 episodes to date. The cadence seemed to be two a month at the start and now it looks like it's closer to monthly.
LinkedIn. There seem to be some good posts.
Issue Tracker. I don't think I'm going to use this.
Awesome Kotlin. I'll definitely come back to this.
So far, my impression is that the Kotlin community is much more organized and larger and the Clojure and F# communities of which I have been a very happy participant. That probably isn't a surprise to anyone.
