Is anyone using Kotlin for purposes other than mob...

# random

[theapache64]

Is anyone using Kotlin for purposes other than mobile, desktop, or web (backend included)?
was just wondering if there are any unusual use cases that people have somehow hacked it to use for 👀

[Julien Plissonneau Duquène]

I use it for snippets and PoC code where others would have used Python

[Gleb Minaev]

I use it for mathematical experiments which is my hobby. (I am also writing my bachelor paper using Kotlin as a language for implementing algorithms from the paper.) I also use it on work where I implement mathematical algorithms or simulators (that are then used usually for desktop or server applications on JVM).

[Pablichjenkov]

Kotlin scripts count? or rather Gradle scripts/plugins

[Pablichjenkov]

Would love to see an Arduino Kotlin framework 😃

[Dumitru Preguza]

I used it for BigData analysis via Kotlin Notebooks and dataframes
and prototyping

[eygraber]

https://youtu.be/D0P5Lb-2uCY▾

[Piotr Krzemiński]

not sure if it counts as non-standard use or hacking, but: https://github.com/typesafegithub/github-workflows-kt

[theapache64]

Definitely counts!

[Dumitru Preguza]

About hacking, I was surprised to see this, because I did when I was a kid, it was fun to change the memory of a process:

https://youtu.be/lwFNdphmZbE?si=cbySnxWADuFvakJr▾

[hfhbd]

GitHub Actions (via Kotlin/JS) and business process modeling (SAP Integration Suite), theoretically a low code framework but I only use Kotlin/JVM code directly and a custom Kotlin/JVM dsl for the process modeling.