Interesting to see Dart starting to support Wasm a...

# webassembly

[sdeleuze]

Interesting to see Dart starting to support Wasm as well https://medium.com/dartlang/experimenting-with-dart-and-wasm-ef7f1c065577

[napperley]

It is taking way too long for Kotlin to get WASM support 🐌. At the current rate Kotlin will be far behind the competition.

[sdeleuze]

I disagree, I think the timing will be perfect to take the "Wasm for high-level languages" wave and not loose too much energy on building workarounds for stuff which ongoing proposals will handle. Also the multiplatform architecture will be a competitive advantage. The most important point is to take the good direction, build a dedicated team and I think Kotlin team does with Kotlin/Wasm. Like you I can't wait using it, but WebAssembly is a marathon not a sprint, so we have to be patient even if sometimes that's frustrating.

[gildor]

It is taking way too long for Kotlin to get WASM support

WASM itself is not ready yet, core technologies are still in development (like GC), so “too long” for what?

[napperley]

Too long to get something basic out the door that is in a experimental (preview) state. An absent GC isn't going to prevent everything from being done. Some things can be done without a GC. The Kotlin WASM team should look at the possibility of providing a system to migrate Kotlin Native libraries (the ones that heavily rely on using C libraries) to WASM. Such a system would provide a big boost to the Kotlin WASM development platform.

[gildor]

Well without gc it wouldn't work for any real life use case