A TypeScript Fan’s KotlinJS Adventures • Eamonn Boyle & Garth Gilmour • GOTO 2021

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2021. #GOTOcon #GOTOcph Eamonn Boyle - Software Trainer at Instil Garth Gilmour - Head Of Learning at Instil ABSTRACT At Instil Software they standardize on Kotlin for server-side development. Within the training team, they offer a Kotlin native workshop, for which Garth and Eamonn wrote a Kotlin native version of the classic game Breakout. Being massive TypeScript fans, it would always be their language of choice when working on JavaScript platforms. They didn’t feel the drive to switch to other languages that transpile to JS such as Fable (F#), , or even KotlinJS, as they always saw Kotlin on the JVM as the solution to a problem, the problem being Java. They will make use of React, Redux and use React Three Fiber for WebGL graphics. Moreover, they will explore what this transition to KotlinJS is like for a TypeScript fanboy and try to answer some questions along the way. You’ll learn how the tooling, libraries and language featur