Hello everyone, is this a dead project or we expec...

# javascript

[Nicodemus Ojwee]

Hello everyone, is this a dead project or we expect some updates soon?

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-nodejs

[Robert Jaros]

It's probably low priority project for JB

[Nicodemus Ojwee]

@Robert Jaros I wish this was given high priority so we can get to build APIs that use less RAM and can be deployed on shared hosting.
I feel the JVM is sometimes too big for a small API.

[Fudge]

Have you considered kotlin/native?
It's definitely smaller than a nodejs runtime

[Nicodemus Ojwee]

Seems Kotlin Native is not yet supported with Ktor otherwise I would opt for that.
I tried using Spring Native with kotlin and it was promising until I reached a point where a library I wanted to use was not compatible with Spring Native. However Spring Native is promising.

[Fudge]

It's possible to compile JVM apps into native images using GraalVM, which would take less RAM. Ktor has dedicated documentation for this https://ktor.io/docs/graalvm.html#preparing-for-graalvm