Hello. Can someone please help me understand the d...

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[kieran]

Hello. Can someone please help me understand the difference between, and use-cases for, konan and kotlin-multiplatform plugins. I've spent most of a day looking at the docs and tutorials and samples but I'm still confused. I've also seen one suggestion from a contributor to JetBrains repos that konan is deprecated, and multiplatform should be used, but I can't find any official source backing that assertion.

[Kris Wong]

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2018/09/kotlinnative-v0-9-is-here/

[Kris Wong]

what I see is that konan is the gradle plugin for kotlin/native. multiplatform is separate but related (it uses kotlin/native)

[Kris Wong]

i've not actually used Konan though

[Kris Wong]

but it's still referenced here https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/native/gradle-for-kotlin-native.html

[serebit]

The current recommendation is that you use kotlin-multiplatform and just don’t put anything in common. Konan is deprecated iirc

[kieran]

@Kris Wong that post is pretty unambiguous; just what I was after. Thanks guys, really appreciate the help.

[Kris Wong]

keep in mind that multiplatform is still experimental, though

[kieran]

Yeah, I’m aware of that. We’re not looking at it for anything in production at the moment, just interested in exploring.