I was wondering what the vision of kotlin native i...
# kotlin-nativea
altianogerung
09/07/2023, 5:32 PMI was wondering what the vision of kotlin native is, will it replace kotlin on jvm entirely someday? is that what the team is aiming for?
any roadmap?
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hfhbd
09/07/2023, 5:50 PMIt’s is an additional target but it won’t replace JVM, which is currently in focus and I guess, will always be the primary target.
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mbonnin
09/07/2023, 7:28 PMThe debugger and compilation times would need to do huge leaps forward for native to replace JVM... I don't expect this to happen any time soon (or ever)
mbonnin
09/07/2023, 7:28 PMAs for the roadmap, you have it there: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/roadmap.html
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altianogerung
09/09/2023, 2:40 PMThanks for the info and the roadmap, folks! Much appreciated.
I was thinking how much I should really invest my time into learning/using it
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mbonnin
09/09/2023, 2:42 PMThe good thing is you don't have to learn much about K/N. If you know Kotlin, you can compile your code for native. If you want to deep dive, you'll have to learn about C-interop and these kind of stuff but most of my K/N code is actually exactly the same as the JVM one.
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altianogerung
09/09/2023, 2:44 PMthat’s reassuring 🙂
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mbonnin
09/09/2023, 2:44 PMI love it 🙂
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