In case anyone is interested, I built a Kotlin Com...

# kotlin-native

[natario1]

In case anyone is interested, I built a Kotlin Compiler plugin called Knee that binds Kotlin/Native to Kotlin/JVM, allowing them to interact transparently (uses JNI under the hood). It supports a wide array of features - classes/interfaces, lambdas, suspend functions with two-way cancellation, no-copy buffers. You can even import external types, e.g. create a StateFlow on K/N and collect it on the JVM.

As of now it's androidNative only, but adding new targets is very easy. I just haven't found the right way of importing jni.h for cross-compiled targets in a way that would work for everyone. Happy to discuss!

Link: https://github.com/deepmedia/Knee

[louiscad]

I'm impressed. I hope @eenriquelopez adds it to the next Kotlin Weekly !

[eenriquelopez]

Noted! Thanks for the ping, @louiscad.

I didn’t have time to check it yet, but I will do it over the weekend 🙂

[natario1]

That'd be great, thank you guys! 🙏 I may also write a few blog posts about it in the future, there were many interesting challenges along the way.

[louiscad]

I'd love such a blog series!

[louiscad]

It just struck me…
This could be used to mix the JVM based Compose Desktop with AppKit on macOS, right?

[natario1]

I don't know much about macOS/AppKit. You can use Knee to make types and non-composable functions available to the JVM, then I guess AppKit views would need some kind of native window to draw into, you have to figure out this rendering part.

And before that we must add the macOS target 😄 I have a plan but not sure if it's sound https://github.com/deepmedia/Knee/issues/7