Hello all I ve been talking to my team about using KMP for o

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Hello all I ve been talking to my team about using KMP for our iOS development The developers have concerns around the concurrency model for Kotlin Native I ve read about and on Kotlins website along with an Also watched some videos that explain and walk through this concept by Kevin Galligan and Kevin s videos talk a lot about the concept and also ways to design with intention It definitely seems like a trouble spot but seems like issues are avoidable with intentional design with what is immutable vs mutable Atomics in some cases and potentially using the coroutines native mt branch for multithreading I was hoping to get others thoughts an opinions who use Kotlin for Native development Has this been a non starter for using Kotlin Native for anyone who has looked into this topic or is something that s workable Or are there any other resources people recommend reading to better design for Native s concurrency model

kpgalligan · Answer

Nobody replied I have follow on thoughts as it s been almost a year and a half since the talk I guess the first thing to mention is the feedback from that talk was basically wow that s a lot I tried to cram everything in there but you really don t need to know everything I wound up writing some blog posts after that were more focused around practical info vs everything and ultimately that turned into some of the official docs hands on

kpgalligan · Answer

gt Has this been a non starter for using Kotlin Native for anyone who has looked into this topic or is something that s workable I d say yes and yes Some teams look at it and decide it won t work or run into some issues and give up Other teams seem to have little trouble It isn t the easiest thing in the world to adjust to for sure and if you are integrating in an already complex app it may be tricky but in general it s workable The model will change at some point after which this shouldn t be an issue but there s no public ETA on that change So for now freezing etc

Megan Teahan · Answer

Thank you so much for the reply I really enjoyed your talks and thanks for the other docs I ll look them over smile