What you guys think about Kotlin and its frontend ...

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[weber de lima santos]

What you guys think about Kotlin and its frontend "branch"? I'm already into kotlin/server, but i don't feel kotlin/js as solid in terms of: jetbrains plans, community, etc, as kotlin/server or kotlin/mobile...

[andylamax]

Kotlin/JS is mature enough. Its fully supported by jetbrains and they even officially support react using kotlin-react.

[andylamax]

the kotlin-stdlib-js is stacked as just as in the jvm

[andylamax]

total full support for coroutines, serialization and ktor client

[andylamax]

Only current caveat from my side is the bundle size. The current bundle size is large if you use serialization, or coroutines with it. If you don't rely on those libs you are good to go

[weber de lima santos]

Those are good news to hear before starting to dig. Thank you bro!

[galex]

Depends what you want to do. A full Kotlin/JS app ? Sure, but you need to write externals for libs that don't have. There's an initiative to use d.ts (and generate those too for Kotlin Multiplatform) but it's not there yet. Also creating an NPM module from a Kotlin Multiplatform project is possible but not trivial yet. To summarize it, I am waiting for good improvements that are on the way to have a look again at Kotlin/JS.