Time for those Catalyst builds…. :slightly_smiling...

# multiplatform

[tylerwilson]

Time for those Catalyst builds…. 🙂

[Sam]

Not for a while. I asked about it in the Reddit AMA. https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/ji9z19/kotlin_team_ama_2_ask_us_anything/ga6l793/

[tylerwilson]

So unfortunate. I have an iPad app that uses KMP extensively and I would love to have a ‘native’ macOS Catalyst version of it…

[Sam]

Yeah. Ultimately Catalyst is a dead end technology so I can understand why it isn’t a priority. On one hand as Intel Macs go away and Apple chips take their place, we won’t need Catalyst. On the other hand, if you’re using SwiftUI for the UI layer, it should just be a matter of adding a macOS module to your KMP build and recompiling. Unfortunately the app I’m working on isn’t using SwiftUI so it will be a while before our users can use it on their desktops.

[tylerwilson]

‘ultimately’ being the key word here. ‘ultimately’, objective-c will be dead. meanwhile, it is a valid solution and thus ought to be supported.