Hey, it begins to be possible to write server-side...
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sdeleuze
03/27/2023, 7:51 AMHey, it begins to be possible to write server-side applications with Kotlin/Wasm with https://github.com/kowasm/kowasm, if you want to learn more: https://twitter.com/sdeleuze/status/1639588268151910401 (the server-side stuff is towards the end but it probably helps to get some context with the first part of the presentation before). Happy to listen your feedback or questions if you have any 🧵.
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Charlie Tapping
03/28/2023, 1:33 PMI notice the WIT spec supports both result with a single success value and also with the success and error. It’s about time we have something like this baked into the stdlib, the current Result without the modelled error is frustrating. I end up reaching for third party libs or writing my own each time 😑
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sdeleuze
03/28/2023, 1:35 PMSearch "WIT results" in the blog post, you will find we translate that to Kotlin Exception.
sdeleuze
03/28/2023, 1:36 PMA better
Resultsdeleuze
03/28/2023, 1:36 PMBut I think we should translate WIT to idiomatic general purpose Kotlin.
sdeleuze
03/28/2023, 1:37 PMFor WIT option, we translate it to Kotlin nullable type.
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Charlie Tapping
03/28/2023, 2:22 PMThats actually why I mentioned it, because that translation is more complex because of the decision to have Result essentially be a Try rather than an Either. More and more languages are having both Optional<T> and Result<S,E> built it in
Charlie Tapping
03/28/2023, 2:24 PMrant aside, awesome article btw!
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sdeleuze
03/28/2023, 2:28 PMThanks ^^
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