yeah you’re right. the flag works as expected, it ...

# compose-web

[julien lengrand-lambert]

yeah you’re right. the flag works as expected, it just takes about 4 seconds to be picked up and I wasn’t patient enough 😄

[Big Chungus]

You can ctrl+s to force save your changes and trigger the reload. Or just alt+tab and wait

[Big Chungus]

But expect it to be WAY slower than you're used to in plain JS. Kotlun has to do a ton more work to get to the same output.

[LeoColman]

I don't even mind the speed so far. I usually waste all that time with trying and failing JS anyway 😅

[Big Chungus]

Yeah, Kotlin.js takes some time getting used to. But once you know all its quirks I can say that the experience is pretty smooth (although slow).

[Big Chungus]

Although I think it's easier to get into kotlin.js than to configure webpack + ts + jsx...

[Big Chungus]

Community is much more helpful!

[LeoColman]

I tried many times to learn JS/vue/react/* but I never could. Coming from a Java background to a JS environment was always impossible for me

[LeoColman]

With Compose Web I'm having the chance to write my first

[julien lengrand-lambert]

yeah just to be clear, my point wasn’t to dunk on Kotlin JS, I’d love to write Kotlin for my frontend. It’s just my first experience and being used to pretty much instant reloads that looks like a huge step back in terms of developer experience

[julien lengrand-lambert]

I’m curious to see how it will look like in a few weeks. 🙂

[LeoColman]

Absolutely!
It is still really slow to compile

[julien lengrand-lambert]

is it something that’s worked on by the devs?

[LeoColman]

Yes

[julien lengrand-lambert]

nice

[LeoColman]

And very worked on. Kotlin's IDE/workspace performance is always on release notes, and as a heavy Kotlin user (> 3 years) I testify that it has improved a lot since the beggining

[julien lengrand-lambert]

that’s what i was hoping to hear.

[julien lengrand-lambert]

Thanks!

[julien lengrand-lambert]

I’ll have a closer look at the roadmap and releases in the future