Hi JetBrains,
Is it possible to make Kotlin/Nati...
# kotlin-nativel
Lorin
03/05/2020, 1:33 AMHi JetBrains,
Is it possible to make Kotlin/Native the first-class programming language just like Golang in k8s world?
If so, we could use Kotlin/Native to implement the aggregation api-server or some plugins as k8s extensions. That would be great!
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Eivind Nilsbakken
03/05/2020, 6:53 AMLike API server objects? In theory, you could use any language for that, but if you mean to knock Golang off its throne as the de-facto k8s programming language, that's going to be difficult, and not entirely up to JetBrains.
Golang has a few things going for it that has made it very popular in the k8s space. #1: It's easy to understand and write idiomatic and performant code. #2: It's easy to create and distribute CLI tools, since you can cross-compile for all of the desktop platforms on a build server (Linux). #3: Good and easy to understand thread management. (Plus, other things, I'm sure.)
Kotlin probably has #1 and #3, but not #2, as far as I know.
Plus, Golang has a lot of momentum by now, which is going to be very difficult to catch up with.
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