How important would you say is compatibility with ...

# gradle

[Fleshgrinder]

How important would you say is compatibility with Java‘s UUID implementation if Kotlin has one?

[nwillc]

Compatibility how? UUIDs have several varients (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier) and while most play well together, some like Mongo's are outliers. Kotlin doesn't have a native UUID I don't think. For JVM you can use Javas. For multiplatform there are frameworks that try and bridge the gaps on different platforms.

[Fleshgrinder]

Compatibility in the sense: if there is a kotlin.Uuid to you expect it to be the same as java.util.UUID.

[Fleshgrinder]

Like with list, set, …