49: Kotlin DevX at Instagram

<p dir="ltr">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.</p> <p dir="ltr">Got feedback? Send it to us on Twitter (<a href= "https://twitter.com/metatechpod">https://twitter.com/metatechpod</a>), Instagram (<a href= "https://instagram.com/metatechpod">https://instagram.com/metatechpod</a>) and don’t forget to follow our host @passy (<a href= "https://twitter.com/passy">https://twitter.com/passy</a> and <a href= "https://mastodon.social/@passy">https://mastodon.social/@passy</a>). Fancy working with us? Check out <a href= "https://www.metacareers.com/">https://www.metacareers.com/</a>.</p> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Links</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Meta Engineering Blog: How Meta brought AV1 to Reels - <a href= "https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/21/video-engineering/av1-codec-facebook-instagram-reels/"> https://engineering.fb.com/2023/02/21/video-engineering/av1-codec-facebook-instagram-reels/</a> </p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Source-only ABIs for Java - <a href= "https://engineering.fb.com/2017/11/09/android/rethinking-android-app-compilation-with-buck/"> https://engineering.fb.com/2017/11/09/android/rethinking-android-app-compilation-with-buck/</a></p> </li> </ul> <p dir="ltr"><strong>Timestamps</strong></p> <ul> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Intro 0:06</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Intro Lisa 1:27</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation">Dev Craft at Instagram 3:03</p> </li> <li dir="ltr" aria-level="1"> <p dir="ltr" role="presentation"