Hey folks :wave: I built a kotlin/native build to...

# kotlin-native

[Arnold Balliu]

Hey folks 👋

I built a kotlin/native build tool:
https://github.com/arncore/konvoy

So I kinda had this epiphany some time ago about the Kotlin ecosystem and how intertwined it is with Gradle and its complexity. I want to make it easier for folks to use Kotlin for native projects that are sort of in between Rust/Go and the languages like Python and JS. Having been exposed to other build tools to in my 10+ years of career I absolutely love Rust Cargo. I wanted to bring its simplicity to Kotlin/Native to perhaps stir some adoption. Konanc is getting faster and Kotlins presence in the multiplatform world keeps increasing. Meanwhile the complexity of the build tooling does not seem to be helping IMO.

People in the JVM world take Gradle for granted but why should we do so for native targets? People working on native software arent well versed in the JVM world. Theres often a disdain for it (which I totally get I work with Gradle and its RAM hogging daemons every day 🙃).

Id really like to get some feedback, opinions and suggestions if you have them.