I'd like to revive the efforts of compiling Kotlin...

# kotlin-native

[Piotr Krzemiński]

I'd like to revive the efforts of compiling Kotlin to Python, but using a different approach than before (which was working on a fork of Kotlin monorepo). Instead, I'd like to work on klib - parse the IR stored there, and produce Python from it. This way I need to create a separate building block with well-defined API instead of fighting with the whole monorepo which is hard to work with. Does this idea make sense to you?

For it to succeed, I need a library that can parse serialized IR from within the klib files - is there a library like this published somewhere? I don't mind unstable API, I just want to experiment 😁

[Adam S]

did you see the recent thread about converting Kotlin to C++?

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C7L3JB43G/p1756518264169509?thread_ts=1756446886.648129&cid=C7L3JB43G

https://github.com/theapache64/korduino

[Piotr Krzemiński]

Wow, impressive! I'll take a closer look, thanks!

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

That library is called the Kotlin compiler!
No, seriously, there's deserialization stuff in the compiler, and you likely won't find anything else that'll do a decent job

[Piotr Krzemiński]

ok, got it - I'll try to use the compiler's internals then! maybe there's a dedicated Gradle module that I could publish/consume for myself as a library