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Is it possible to use Kotlin Scripting as a way to allow extending a C++ program?  For example, if I were to create a game engine in C++, and wanted to enable Kotlin scripting, would there be an easy way to do that?

it should be possible insofar as Kotlin scripting can be embedded in a Java application and Java can be embedded in a C++ program, but you probably need to know how to do both those things

I would rather not pull in the JRE for it. I was thinking more along the lines of Kotlin Native.

Okay, that answers my question then :wink:

You _could_ feed the Kotlin compiler in GraalVM

<https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image/guides/build-native-shared-library/|https://www.graalvm.org/latest/reference-manual/native-image/guides/build-native-shared-library/>

No idea how much effort is required. Probably not trivial

I'm thinking of writing a Kotlin IR runtime with implementations in graalvm/truffle + KMP right now for a similar use case. Although my game engine is also written in Kotlin.

I've also been playing with creating an engine in Kotlin (using LWJGL as a base). This does make it JVM dependent though.