Is there any article about the difference between ...

# kotlin-native

[amorenew]

Is there any article about the difference between Kotlin Native and MultiPlatform?

[olonho]

https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/C3PQML5NU/p1537349462000100

[russhwolf]

Kotlin/Native and multiplatform are pretty much the same thing, just from different point of view. Kotlin/Native allows to produce code for iOS, Kotlin/JVM for Android, and multiplatform allows to combine those two in one project, and share code.

Calling them the same thing seems a little reductive to me. Multiplatform is a mechanism for sharing code between platforms, and Native is one of those platforms. You can have JVM/JS Multiplatform without ever touching Native, and you could have a pure Native project with no code sharing that doesn’t use Multiplatform.