Sebastian Aigner

Sebastian Aigner is a developer advocate at JetBrains. He regularly speaks at conferences and gives workshops on Kotlin-related subjects. Sebastian is a host on the Talking Kotlin podcast and creates videos for the official Kotlin YouTube channel. As a member of the Kotlin Foundation, he helps maintain the ecosystem’s growth and sustainability.

books by Sebastian Aigner

Kotlin in Action, Second Edition

  • April 2024
  • ISBN 9781617299605
  • 560 pages
  • printed in black & white

Kotlin in Action, Second Edition teaches you Kotlin techniques you can use for almost any type of application, from enterprise services to Android apps. The authors are all members of the Kotlin team, so you can trust that even the gnarly details are dead accurate. You’ll start with Kotlin fundamentals, learning how the language handles everything from statements and functions to classes and types, and about its unique features that make Kotlin programming so seamless.

As you progress through this masterful book, you’ll get hands-on with the Kotlin standard library, functional programming in Kotlin, and advanced features such as generics and reflection. And this updated second edition now covers coroutines and structured concurrency to help you create efficient high-performance applications.