Svetlana Isakova

SVETLANA ISAKOVA has been part of the Kotlin team since 2011. She worked on the type-inference and overload-resolution subsystems of the compiler. Now she’s a technical evangelist, speaking about Kotlin at conferences and working on the online course for Kotlin.

books by Svetlana Isakova

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.

Kotlin in Action

  • February 2017
  • ISBN 9781617293290
  • 360 pages
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Kotlin in Action teaches you to use the Kotlin language for production-quality applications. Written for experienced Java developers, this example-rich book goes further than most language books, covering interesting topics like building DSLs with natural language syntax. The authors are core Kotlin developers, so you can trust that even the gnarly details are dead accurate.