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I have a big question big, Why <https://www.baeldung.com/kotlin/explicit-api-mode|explicitAPI> is not by default in the shared library template of KMP?
On Swift a library is internal by default and on Kotlin it’s open.
Using explicitAPI, especially for iOS, reduce the exposed content, so the generated header content and I guess the compilation time.
I mean, It forces the developer to control what is exposed.

> I mean, It forces the developer to control what is exposed
Many of us argued that `internal` should be the default prior to 1.0 and nothing in the last 10 years has really changed my mind on that. Still seems like a huge blunder to make it public.

Explicit API is sad, but it's all we've got. I agree it should be in any kind of template one might use to create a library.

Yes, that’s the common reason to use this rule when developing a library.

In KMP, it has another important, especially for iOS, as everything is public, the bridge contains also everything, meaning lesser performance for Xcode dev experience and more ...

Thanks for sharing <@U07FECW6EV9>! I'd never heard of `explicitApi` before, despite maintaining two KMP libraries. In one of them I unintentionally exposed a small test class before. Not a big deal but nice to have a way to prevent that :eyes:

We had a nice discussion here <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CTJB58X7X/p1734621612239779>