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In order to improve creating scripts without IDE support, adding this `typealias File = java.io.File` to the kotlin stdlib in the jvm part would be great, so we don't have to remember to add the import.

But I don't know if there are plans to add a real multiplatform `File` to the stdlib "soon"

The shortest code should be the most correct. `java.io.File` isn't even the modern way to deal with files on the JVM, and is not multiplatform. I don't think any helper of the sort should be added until there is a multiplatform file utility, whenever that is.

But I don't think it will ever happen as part of the standard library, because the idiomatic way to deal with I/O in Kotlin is probably through coroutines, and dispatchers etc are not part of the stdlib.

A lot of kotlin stdlib extension functions are over `File`, that is the main reason I need that import when scripting

there are just as many stdlib extensions over Path, and Path is the superior class is every way

For multiplatform, okio is probably the right way for most people.