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Reading through some of the JEPs for JDK 22 makes me sad, but also very glad that Kotlin exists :sweat_smile:

This round it was FFM and String templates

Will they ever adopt true null safety? :sweat_smile: 

FFM is good I suppose? At least it opens up a whole world. Template is kind of _Javaish_ yeah.

It's all good, but the implementations are all, as you say "kind of _Javaish_"

FFM is rather good, comparing to JNI
The API of FFM is minimal and a little ugly for a reason - it really should not be used without `jextract` (or other code-generator) - with it, the API looks more or less nice and strait-forward, I would say
FFM API is low-low-level API, and `jextract` generated API is just low-level API
In future (I suppose) there will be better APIs for some stuff. AFAIK even now there talks there regarding mapping struct to `record`s. And a lot more sugar could be added - though, I believe it would be mostly on `jextract` side (and it's expected)

Still, with Kotlin we could do better already, but it's a really hard task (`cinterop` is not a good API either)