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In the latest 1.3.40 change log, I saw `String.encodeToByteArray` experimental API introduced there. And I have been using `String.toByteArray` since always. I want to know why there is such redundancy? What's the difference between them? (I don't think there is much or any difference at all)

`String.toByteArray` is available only on the JVM and likely uses the Java standard library internally.
`String.encodeToByteArray` is cross-platform and doesn't depend on Java.

Does the new function utilise the existing method on the JVM?

Looks like that the JVM-version still depends on Java :open_mouth:

<https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/blob/1.3.40/libraries/stdlib/jvm/src/kotlin/text/StringsJVM.kt#L208>

Make sense, if you reuse platform implementation you do not distribute your code with stdlib, but also can reuse platform specific optimizations of JVM