Ok, a little stuck on this one, besides just inven...

# multiplatform

[Brill]

Ok, a little stuck on this one, besides just inventing a bangbang replacement scheme like the old days.
Since String.format() is only available on the Kotlin/jvm, and I can't use a string template unless i construct the string in context.

How are you folks handling situation where you have strings with arguments you need to apply later?

For example: "hello %1$s" or even a template "hello $value"

[ian.shaun.thomas]

I think a lot of people use Moko. We ended up building tooling ourselves to better fit our needs but moko otherwise works fine.

https://github.com/icerockdev/moko-resources

[Brill]

Yeah, its the same here, I am trying not to use it.
I'm building a date format library and trying to keep all the extra dependencies out of it. including coroutines and compose.

[ian.shaun.thomas]

Is the new date tooling not sufficient to plug in whatever additional formatters you need?

[Brill]

No, its too simple.
I am looking for something like ios and android have where you can specify the short/medium/long and it does it relative to the locale. Also maybe something like DateUtil where it give you more descriptive formatting relative to locale.

I plane to release it in case anyone else can use it.

[Brill]

but to do that, i need to not use the resource system in kmp, since it relies on coroutines and loading resources from the fs

[Brill]

of course, the easiest thing to do is just delegate down to the platform, but I think it would be helpful to have a kotlin only solution.

[Brill]

and heck, we do this because its fun to build 🙂