hmmm....I just discovered there is a kotlin gtk ex...
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Marshall
10/20/2020, 7:20 PMhmmm....I just discovered there is a kotlin gtk example: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples/gtk
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thanerian
10/21/2020, 7:23 AMhttps://github.com/kropp/kotlin-native-gtk a bit old, but point in the right direction
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Marshall
10/21/2020, 12:54 PMYeah it looks nice, I built and ran the sample
Marshall
10/21/2020, 12:59 PMlooks very promising, but not quite there yet
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:01 PMstill, I may try and build a simple app or convert an existing app
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:03 PMthe biggest problem for me is the lack of kotlin native libraries, once kotlinx-io is done that will be a huge step towards making kotlin native more viable
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Marcin Wisniowski
10/21/2020, 1:45 PMI think the idea is to use C libraries with Kotlin/Native, no? That's what I did, but my Kotlin/Native project was some embedded software.
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Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:49 PMYes and no, currently Kotlin supports C Interop and Objective-C Interop with plans for C++ and Swift
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:51 PMYou can use interop with libraries for things like file i/o
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:53 PMbut, in my opinion, it makes kotlin more difficult to use than just picking a framework that already provides that functionality (e.g. Qt)
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:55 PMit's like the difference between using gtk directly with C interop and using that kotlin-native-gtk library
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:56 PMthe kotlin-native-gtk library takes full advantage of the kotlin language and makes using gtk easier to me than any other languages it supports
Marshall
10/21/2020, 1:58 PMthose libraries are coming along though, kotlinx-datetime, kotlinx-serialization are available and hopefully kotlinx-io isn't far behind
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Astronaut4449
10/22/2020, 7:18 PMI'm really looking forward to kotlinx-io. But they said it will still take some time
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Marshall
10/22/2020, 8:18 PMyeah it's not in the roadmap for the next 6 months
Marshall
10/22/2020, 8:18 PMhopefully it will make it in the next roadmap so we'll have it by this time next year
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Marcin Wisniowski
10/22/2020, 10:15 PMhttps://korlibs.soywiz.com/korio/
This and other libraries from the "korlibs" set are worth a look.
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Marshall
10/22/2020, 10:25 PMlooks really nice, I will have to try it out soon
Marshall
10/22/2020, 10:28 PMI was just thinking, its a shame there aren't more libraries available for native, that's the only draw back to kotlin native when you compare it to something like go
Marshall
10/22/2020, 10:29 PMI was going to say and python but python is more like kotlin jvm than native