Hi, I'm new to Kotlin and am having a hard time un...

# getting-started

[Advitiay Anand]

Hi, I'm new to Kotlin and am having a hard time understanding the various target platforms Kotlin has:
• JVM
• JS
• Kotlin/Native
How are these different, and what is common to all of them?

[Jochen Guck]

You can tack a look at this simple mpp project https://github.com/benasher44/uuid. It is bringing UUID to the different targets. In short common holds the generic code. The targets the platform specific one.

[Advitiay Anand]

@Jochen Guck Thank you for replying
I was kinda hoping for a 2-3 line response.

Just to get a very high level perspective on why we need separate target platforms.

[Jochen Guck]

For cross platform programming. You can reuses al common code on all platforms (e.g. android, ios, jvm, ...). Or access platform specific topics in a generic way (e.g. Bluetooth, Sockets, ... )

[Advitiay Anand]

Thanks, that helps!