Can i use kotlin native so that i can end up with ...
# kotlin-natives
Strum355
03/16/2019, 3:02 PMCan i use kotlin native so that i can end up with a native binary instead of a jar file while also having data structures like arraylist available?
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gildor
03/16/2019, 3:16 PMArrayList available on K/N stdlib
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Strum355
03/16/2019, 7:15 PMI saw that exists. What about others? What would i be losing by going for K/N? And is K/N viable for standard Linux binaries without using C/C++?
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olonho
03/16/2019, 7:44 PMKotlin common standard library is available, you can produce native libs and executables for many platforms, including Linux
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Strum355
03/16/2019, 7:53 PMI see its missing a lot of classes and methods that are marked as jvm only in the docs :/
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gildor
03/17/2019, 1:23 AMYes, not everything is available, if some particular data structure is not available on K/N now, you can open a feature request to add it and give your use cases, there are few similar issues, as I remember
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Sam
03/18/2019, 12:03 PMIn K/N you also have access to various platform libraries such as posix on Unix based systems. Using the cinterop tool you can pull in other external libraries as well. There are a lot of good small demo programs in the GitHub repo.
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