I wonder if there are plans to make JbCompose trul...
# compose-desktopb
Big Chungus
11/03/2020, 10:48 PMI wonder if there are plans to make JbCompose truly native. i.e. Kotlin Native as opposed to JVM
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jim
11/03/2020, 11:50 PMA couple people have been experimenting in that direction: https://android-review.googlesource.com/c/platform/frameworks/support/+/1463143
Compose is open source, community contributions are welcomed.
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gildor
11/04/2020, 9:21 AMisn’t this PR about support of JS, not native
gildor
11/04/2020, 9:22 AMI think porting everything on Native require much more work, at least Android and Desktop both have a lot of things from Java, including such important parts as threading and other concurrency primitives
But it would of course very cool to see
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caelum19
11/04/2020, 10:54 AMI suppose the direction is away from the JVM 😄
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gildor
11/04/2020, 11:04 AMWhy?
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caelum19
11/04/2020, 11:08 AMI mean effort towards JbCompose with JS is effort away from the JVM and is in the same direction as JbCompose for native, is what I think Jim meant my direction
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gildor
11/04/2020, 11:51 AMNot sure that I see connection here, yes, it’s also effort in MPP compose, but it doesn’t mean that JetBrains Compose will focus on K/N, and especially on Kotlin JS
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shikasd
11/04/2020, 11:57 AMJust to mention, the main challenge to make Compose work on JS is to make it compatible with klib compilation
Whenever it is done, K/Native conversion feels as much simpler task to handle
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jim
11/04/2020, 1:13 PMYes, as Caelum and Andrei mentioned, the challenges for K/N and K/JS are very similar, and achieving one of them will make the other one "reasonably easy" (for some definition of "easy").
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msink
11/04/2020, 3:15 PMWell, porting compose-runtime is relatively easy, but what about Compose Compiler plugin? Does it work with non-JVM targets?
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shikasd
11/04/2020, 11:08 PMThat's exactly what I meant by "making it work with klib" 🙃
I think it will be possible to reuse the same logic of plugin between js and native
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snrostov
11/05/2020, 6:56 PMIn fact, it is already working for Kotlin/JS but only inside a single module. Here is the demo: https://zal.im/h8/
We are preparing the sources of that prototype. But note that it is far from production, it’s just a proof of concept.
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snrostov
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