@orangy Thanks. That's the best price, i have ever one.

does it support annotation processing?

No, not yet

@olonho I think we need to update sample READMEs to include information on installing native libs for major platforms. Not everyone is native citizen in a native world…

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I assume kotlin native uses bdwgc?

my question is mostly this:

currently in gc languages, the gc thread is spawned implicitly during startup

this is a problem in case you want to do things such as forking or OS signal handlers

(where the gc thread would receive signals, or the forked process is borked)

are there plans to manage the gc in some way to remedy this?

ie a valid use case this:

isolating a privileged part of the code in a parent process

which spawns a child process which then drops privileges

(on the jvm such a thing is not possible without reverting to C/JNI and spawning the jvm from native code later on)

Did you actually read the blog post? It clearly states there is no GC yet.

It was engineered in the way that there is technical possibility to do so. I can’t say for sure.

ok thanks for the reponse! 🙂

📣 When you start playing with Kotlin Native, please do not hesitate to share what are you trying to build. Many people are likely to build similar things, you could help each other. Also it could help us steering with further development if we see something is on popular demand.

A wayland compositor, but I doubt it's a popular thing many people are building 🙂

@hhariri ^^

openvr, ovr, glm, gli, etc, if anyone interested, we could work together

When I first read about Kotlin/Native my use case was a common business logic for an app that targets Android, iOS and the Web (and still build the UI natively in the respective platforms) What has been released can be used for that but I think #multiplatform is what will tie it together. That said, what has released opens up several other interesting use cases for me. Targeting things like Raspberry Pi or Arduino - that widens the scope so much that I now have a problem of plenty 😄

Yes please, someone contribute Arduino support 😄

@orangy It will require smaller runtime

How much smaller?

32 KB is Program memory size on Arduino Uno

256 KB of which 8 KB used by bootloader on Arduino Mega 2560

256kb is not that small, I think. I think curl sample with embedded libcurl was about 100kb, so basically you can fit something in there.

Also memory fragmentation will kill) 8KB of RAM