Lisa works on the Dev Craft team at Instagram that embarked on a journey to bring Kotlin to the Instagram for Android code base a little over three years ago. Now, nearly half of the large codebase is migrated and over 80% of newly committed code is in Kotlin. Tune in to hear what the unique challenges of bringing a new language to an existing app are and what it means for build speed, IDE experiences and developer happiness.

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Links

Meta Engineering Blog: How Meta brought AV1 to Reels - https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/21/video-engineering/av1-codec-facebook-instagram-reels/
Source-only ABIs for Java - https://engineering.fb.com/2017/11/09/android/rethinking-android-app-compilation-with-buck/

Timestamps

Intro 0:06
Intro Lisa 1:27
Dev Craft at Instagram 3:03
Building DevX Partnerships 3:56
The History of Kotlin at Instagram 6:22
Declarative UI 18:29
Build Speed Challenges 20:25
Source-Only ABIs 23:19
IDE Performance 26:19
Kotlin at IG in 2023 27:15
Outro 32:02
Bloopers 33:07

49: Kotlin DevX at Instagram

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