What's the difference between

stdlib

and

stdlib-common

?

The former is the JVM artifact of the standard library that appeared long before the MPP was ever conceived so it's called just that. The

stdlib-common

is the Kotlin metadata artifact of the standard library that should be used as a dependency for sources targeting multiple platforms. There's also

kotlin-stdlib-js

for JS, but Kotlin/Native has a built-in standard library, so no separate artifact exists for Native targets.