BTW, what's the plan for JB with JS support? I see...

# javascript

[uliluckas]

BTW, what's the plan for JB with JS support? I see many basic, language breaking bugs and slow progress compared to other compiler backends.

[konsoletyper]

Seriously? It's a language breaking bug? It's a rarely used set of language features used together! BTW, there are things that work in JS BE, and don't work in JVM BE.

[konsoletyper]

Can you clarify, which features you are missing from Kotlin/JS? Which bugs are show-stoppers for you?

[uli]

It's not about show stoppers. It's more like I feel, KotlinJS is not ready yet.
Whenever I start playing with it, I run into issues.
Took me just a 500 LoC side project to run into the next issue:
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21003

[uli]

What about String, Any, Int::class ? Isn't that integral part of the language?

[konsoletyper]

That's not a bug in compiler, it's a library bug

[uli]

Well, I am talking about the subsystem in general.

[konsoletyper]

When did you try Kotlin/JS the last time? It evolved dramatically in last year.

[uli]

Yesterday. That's when i discovered KT-21003

[konsoletyper]

IMO, "libraries" is a separate subsystem, neither JVM nor JS

[konsoletyper]

When did you try Kotlin/JS before that? What issues did you encounter?

[uli]

No offence and no bashing intended. It's just, that I am a great fan of kotlin. Using it on Android.

[uli]

KotlinJS is a great piece of work

[uli]

Just my personal experience is, whenever I take the time to take another look, I run into some new issues. No showstoppers. Just bumps

[konsoletyper]

You initial question was "what's the plan for JB with JS". It's under active development, and, as I said above, it evolved greatly.

[uli]

Well, thanks for the answer an keep on. I'll keep looking into it 🙂

[konsoletyper]

Here's the list of how many issues were resolved per year:

* 2017: 216
* 2016: 249
* 2015: 46
* 2014: 140