We are planning to use Kotlin as a scripting langu...
# scriptingm
Mohammed Akram Hussain
10/10/2023, 6:03 PMWe are planning to use Kotlin as a scripting language to deploy our Android & iOS apps...is it the right time to use though it's experimental?
or we should wait for it be in beta at least and then migrate?
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ephemient
10/10/2023, 6:11 PMscripting is JVM-only so that's not going to work out very well for you
ephemient
10/10/2023, 6:12 PMyou might consider https://github.com/cashapp/zipline as an alternative
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Mohammed Akram Hussain
10/10/2023, 6:22 PMI'm not sure how this can help publishing to appstores?
Mohammed Akram Hussain
10/10/2023, 6:48 PMWe want an alternative to ruby, ideally kotlin
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ephemient
10/10/2023, 6:48 PMoh, you don't mean deploying to the clients?
ephemient
10/10/2023, 6:51 PMin that case, I think there's not much to be gained by trying to replace Fastlane, but if you want to try it out, go ahead
ephemient
10/10/2023, 6:58 PMKotlin scripting is used by Gradle, IJ scratch files, notebooks, etc… so I don't expect it to go away, but as it is marked experimental so you will need to work to keep up with changes across releases
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mbonnin
10/10/2023, 7:15 PMI contributed this some time ago, it's far from fastlane in terms of features but it's 100% kotlin
mbonnin
10/10/2023, 7:16 PMOverall for scripting in CI, during dev, Kotlin scripting is great. I don't expect any breaking change and it comes pre-installed in GitHub actions so it's pretty easy to use
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Mohammed Akram Hussain
10/10/2023, 7:21 PM@mbonnin This is awesome! Is it for Android only?
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mbonnin
10/10/2023, 7:46 PMYes, mostly. Some parts are agnostic but it's really android centric
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