Is there any idea when we’re going to see Kotlin w...

# webassembly

[spierce7]

Is there any idea when we’re going to see Kotlin wasm ready for production use?

[napperley]

Most likely the Kotlin team will make an official announcement at this year's Kotlin Conf, in terms of a rough general timeline that is subject to change (aka Kotlin Roadmap).

[Sam]

Is GC support shipping with browsers these days?

[jessel]

It’s still an in-design/dev experimental feature/standard. It’s technically in Chrome Canary though

[spierce7]

no. It’s entered implemented phase 2 out of 3 for WASM early this year. Which means it’s documented - https://github.com/WebAssembly/proposals

[spierce7]

@bashor I’m just curious. I realistically won’t use Kotlin wasm until compose has a target for it.

[bashor]

do you use compose for web?

[bashor]

What kind of compose do you mean? Using DOM or on top of canvas?

[bashor]

A lot of questions, sorry 🙂

[bashor]

Speaking about the new compiler backend for Kotlin/Wasm:
It will be hard to use it in real production until GC & some other proposals reach the final stage, are implemented and turned on by default in all major browsers, and spread across the world.

[bashor]

I personally expect that within 2022 Q4 — 2023 Q2:
• GC proposal will be moved to 3 of 4 phase.
• We will get experimental support (under flag) for GC proposal in all major browsers.

[bashor]

Anyway, you already can play with the new compiler backend since 1.7.0.
https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CDFP59223/p1662993346738069?thread_ts=1662769881.141889&cid=CDFP59223