What is the Kotlin team focusing on more? JS or WA...
# announcementsc
CLOVIS
09/29/2020, 12:57 PMWhat is the Kotlin team focusing on more? JS or WASM? I wonder which one should be preferred for multiplatform applications
b
Big Chungus
09/29/2020, 1:11 PMWasm work is suspended. See the announcement in #CDFP59223
s
streetsofboston
09/29/2020, 1:32 PMWASM work for LLVM has been suspended. They’ll be focusing on building a new compiler back-end.
s
Sebastian Aigner
09/29/2020, 1:57 PMWe’re building at products using Kotlin/Multiplatform and Kotlin/JS at JetBrains, like https://www.jetbrains.com/space/ – so it’s certainly a major focus to provide a good experience with JS, and we keep investing majorly into the target. 🙂
➕ 1
c
CLOVIS
09/29/2020, 6:49 PMThanks a lot for the replies ^^
CLOVIS
09/29/2020, 6:51 PMSince WASM is supposedly faster than JS, is there any particular reason JS is more important (whether it's an audience or technical thing, I'm just curious if there's been any evaluation that determined that there was an advantage one way or the other) ?
b
Big Chungus
09/29/2020, 6:52 PMCurrent wasm ui faster ONLY for number crunching
Big Chungus
09/29/2020, 6:52 PMSee latest benchmarking comparison in #CNR7ARJGJ to get a sense how slow js interop is
Big Chungus
09/29/2020, 6:53 PMThis should all change after wasm gets direct access to dom apis
bashor
09/30/2020, 9:09 PMAlso, the whole thread could be interesting for you.
11 Views