Go is said to be good for distributed systems. (Co...

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[manlan]

Go is said to be good for distributed systems. (Compiling to binaries, concurrency primitives etc).
I hope Kotlin is equally suitable. What can make it the lesser favourite?

[gildor]

K/N is not so mature as Go yet (performance, binary size, GC etc)

[gildor]

Go has much better set of ready to use libraries, K/N can use most many using C bindings, but they not so pleasant to use as standard Kotlin code and there are not so many pure Kotlin libraries

[manlan]

Thanks @gildor

[gildor]

But I think JVM is actually not worse choice than Go, but it’s debatable of course

[manlan]

Of course, there's no end to language/framework debates

[Marshall]

kotlin native is missing too many libraries to compete with Go right now

[Marshall]

in order to do things like file access you have to resort to c libraries like fopen()

[Marshall]

and it looks like the work to add that still has a long way to go: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-io

[Marshall]

though kotlinx-datetime is complete now so its moving along

[elizarov]

Actually, orders of magnitude more real-life complex distributed systems are written on top of JVM as opposed to Go. Using Kotlin/JVM makes it even better - you have access to all the libs and frameworks plus a modern and concise language to use them from.

[manlan]

Interesting to hear that, can you please provide some examples? Would like to explore. @elizarov