Has anyone tried developing in :kotlin: without st...
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mg6maciej
03/17/2017, 4:11 PMHas anyone tried developing in K without stdlib? 🙂
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janvladimirmostert
03/18/2017, 1:29 PMmg6maciej: that sounds like an interesting experiment!
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mg6maciej
03/18/2017, 10:42 PMIt's definitely doable. I just put a very small lib on maven central that is written in Kotlin, but doesn't use anything from stdlib.
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janvladimirmostert
03/19/2017, 1:28 PMmg6maciej: it would be nice to have the Kotlin compiler remove methods from stdlib that are not in use
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mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:29 PMCompiler doesn't have to do with it.
mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:29 PMUnless you create fat jar.
mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:30 PMIn which case I guess it's still not a compiler that creates it.
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janvladimirmostert
03/19/2017, 1:30 PMNot sure how practical that would be considering reflection might not work correctly
janvladimirmostert
03/19/2017, 1:31 PMMmm, a fat jar generator that does tree shaking, that sounds like an interesting project
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mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:32 PMHave you heard about something like Proguard?
mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:32 PMIt can do that.
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janvladimirmostert
03/19/2017, 1:33 PMNever used it, will definitely check it out!
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mg6maciej
03/19/2017, 1:34 PMThere are probably many shrinkers out there.
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