Good morning multiplatform trailblazers!!! I have a very noob question but i get mixed signals from ...

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[mboudraa]

Good morning multiplatform trailblazers!!!
I have a very noob question but i get mixed signals from the Internet. I can read here and there it’s possible to have access to generics from swift code by activating the Xobjc-generics flag on the compiler. That being said i keep having my type erased on the swift side and have to deal with a Any? instead.
The type im trying to use is the Result type.
Do you have any idea if it’s possible?
Do I have to write my own Either type?

[ribesg]

Kotlin generics and Objective-C generics aren’t completely compatible, so only a subset of what you can do in Kotlin can be converted to Objective-C. Swift is a little closer to Kotlin while still not 1-1, but in K/N we’re doing ObjC, not Swift anyway

[russhwolf]

Some notes on the implementation and what is and isn't possible here: https://medium.com/@kpgalligan/kotlin-native-interop-generics-15eda6f6050f

[russhwolf]

In short, there still are a bunch of scenarios where you might need to cast because all three languages handle generics differently

[mboudraa]

Thanks. Was very helpful