Does kotlin work well as a replacement for JS?? I'...

# javascript

[jecarr33]

Does kotlin work well as a replacement for JS?? I'm super interested

[egoscio]

What do you use JS for primarily?

[jecarr33]

es2015

[egoscio]

So, server side with node.js? browser? mobile hybrid or native?

[jecarr33]

just front-end

[jecarr33]

no server side

[egoscio]

Personally, so far I've only used it for server side, however I think it's great for client side too. If you're looking for that amazing IDE tabcompletion experience, make sure your target JS libraries have typed headers available.

[jecarr33]

I would be using phpstorm, so I hope that's avaliable out of the box

[jecarr33]

I kind of wish webstorm had php support

[jecarr33]

I pay for an all product jetbrains license, so I have access to both, it's just a pain having to jump back and forth if I require php

[egoscio]

I use IntelliJ for Kotlin.

[egoscio]

But it's a plugin, so it wouldn't matter I guess.

[bashor]

@jecarr33, unfortunately, right now kotlin plugin compatible only with IntelliJ IDEA Android Studio. Eventually, we want to make it compatible with WebStorm but we don’t have any ETA about it yet.

[bashor]

Feel free to vote to the issue https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-2791

[jecarr33]

Thanks @bashor much appreciated