Be aware that there is good chance GC, Exception handle and DOM API will be available by the end of the year, and I am sure Mozilla foks that are working on that would be happy to collaborate with you with some early prototypes.

You can contact Luke Wagner for example (luke@mozilla.com)

sorry if I ask, but would kotlin native run also normal java code?

No.

Oh, interesting. Any details on this? What if we need raw types? 😱 (btw, you can translate any Java code into Kotlin with not much pain)

I know, but this means I do need to have all I need explicitly in kotlin

right now I have always, more or less, a mix

You won't need to use native. This is for different targets than JVM / Android.

on ios, I guess I'd do

Well. If you want to do iOS, then yes, you will have to.

Any interop with RoboVM? 🙂

no, sorry

well, it has, but you need to use kotlin2jvm and use robovm to build the whole bundle

So for this end-of-month preview, will it come with coroutines as well?

I don’t think so, but @olonho knows better

Coroutines are likely not to be included in early access preview

wait EAP this month 😮 this will be the longest month ever, i can't wait omg ❤️

Will Kotlin native have any any JVM equivalent code, or will I only be able to run code explicitly written in Kotlin?

i.e. will I be able to use a Java StringBuilder?

or would I have to roll my own?

@spierce7 I don’t think so. You can use only kotlin stdlib + platform specific stuff

@spierce7 @gildor You can use

kotlin.text.StringBuilder

. It is a part of a portable Kotlin stdlib. On JVM it is typealias to a Java's StringBuilder, but JS with Native have their own implementations of it.

Oh, I couldn't to find StringBuilder in stdlib, thanks!

Thanks for the clarification. @elizarov is what they are saying above correct? It's expected there will be an EAP for kotlin-native by the end of the month?

We don't have any specific commitments, but we are expecting to show something fairly soon.

Coolio

I'm excited

@mg6maciej where have you heard such things?

Mostly here.

Maybe I just can't see all of the history