On the note of libraries targeting multiplateforms...

# multiplatform

[arocnies]

On the note of libraries targeting multiplateforms: Dartlang shares this problem with Dart/Web, Dart/Server, and Dart/Flutter. Dart helps ease the pain of using and finding the right libraries with this site: https://pub.dartlang.org/ It would be great to have something similar for Kotlin where authors could tag their libraries for multiple platforms and provide documentation and links.

[napperley]

Wouldn't be feasible with the build process used by Kotlin for multi-platform projects (Gradle).

[arocnies]

True, Pub has the advantage of being built for this setup where as Gradle does not (which doesn't even mention the other options for building Kotlin across all platforms)

[napperley]

Gradle doesn't have the discoverability and update system parts, instead it allows dev environments to be isolated/controlled which is extremely important.

[arocnies]

What I'm really wanting is a hub for Kotlin libraries. The actually dependencies could be published on maven. More like a Kotlin directory. Awesome-Kotlin is nice but not enough

[napperley]

Awesome-Kotlin is just a website containing useful Kotlin links (articles, libs etc).

[arocnies]

Agreed. I think we can do better. I would love to browse Kotlin multiplatform libraries easily as Dart packages

[napperley]

Can recall Hadi Hariri mentioning about a maven repo browser project (written using Kotlin Native as a CLI program), which was at the idea stage. 🤔

[napperley]

Having something similar to SDK Man (http://sdkman.io/) would be really nice! 😄