Will it be possible to handle memory explicitly with Kotlin Native?

there were some tutorials before xamarin got robovm, and microsoft got both and killed robovm

Is the goal going to be just to compile to native, or are there any goals around interop? Being able to call methods back and fourth between kotlin-native and native code is a bare minimum, but being able to do something like share models with those method calls would make it amazing.

AFAIK they already have system native calls in Kotlin Native and Kotlin to Kotlin Native is also a plan. Heard it will be much nicer than JNI.

Don't see any reason why Kotlin reflection shouldn't work. Java for sure won't.

did anyone rename their

/src/main/java

dirs to

/src/main/kotlin

?

One question though if it's possible to answer. Of Kotlin native can generate llvm ir, it means it should work wherever llvm works right? Like raspberry pi arm arch etc

That’s how it is supposed to work, yes.

I cannot find any explanation on how the actually manage memory on Scala Native site. Had anyone found it?

Golang has that advantage for creating ELF binaries from mac or even from windows.. The self contained binaries with cross compilation make Go pretty interesting (not language wise :)) . Can we expect something like that for kotlin-native or am i expecting too much? 😉

While we are waiting, can you please tell us what would you do first with Kotlin Native? What kind of project?

I guess first you would need a decent REST client lib written in (or for) KN, but that's also a very good use-case to me.

@dh44t, still the keyboard thing in mind, eh? 😛

J2objc is one option we have today that comes close for this, but well it is Java. And it transpiles to ObjC. Enough said.

At work, i plan to have our QA team use Kotlin-native to write mobile test suite. UI testing for ios and Espresso for Android. For home, I have some Raspberry pi projects and parrot AR drone 2.0 😉 with Kotlin-native interfacing with their C library

kotlin-native has the option of adopting parts of the standardised C++ ABI used by gcc and others. if it did, you could (partially) link kotlin native classes directly against C++ classes, as long as you weren't using fancy C++ features.

the standard itanium C++ ABI (the one used by gcc) covers the entire C++ language.

most libraries on linux if you ignore KDE are in C because Stallman historically did not like C++

now the big question, when ? this week or next week ? :3

@olonho you mean, you got us all hot&wet, what you want more

I have just posted on my favorite social network: https://github.com/mg6maciej/waiting-for-kotlin-native (fork to take part in raffle ;))

"Reference counting"?

Will Windows (old-fashioned desktop Win32) be supported as a target?

@orangy so how many days till EAP?

Flutter does not target the web. It is only Android and iOS. GWT can be used (Google’s Inbox app uses it along with J2Objc) but it think it is more tedious. And also both source and target languages are not exactly modern 🙂

Do you see how Kotlin eats the world or what?

interesting post, https://www.scalawilliam.com/scala-native-libpcap/

@olonho Hey, when you did tetris on ios, were you able to debug the kotlin native code in ios?