How would memory management work with the native compiler? Is there gonna be a way manage memory with native kotlin or is it all done by the compiler like most high level languages? Will there be pointers like in Go and C++ or will it all be inferred by your code structure?

It will use reference counting with cycle detection I believe. Which is iOS but with smart reference cycle detection

not sure why you use future tense. Memory management is implemented as part of the runtime linked with the compiled code, see https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/runtime/src/main/cpp/Memory.cpp

Ah thanks I'm just now looking through the native code after I've spent some time playing with kotlin/JVM, I have a pretty good grasp on kotlin right now, so I'm looking through the native code to make some sense of what is going on (I'll figure things out) and I'm getting a lot of errors right now which should probably go into another thread, specifically with the gradle in the main project. Looks like a ternary is being performed but IntelliJ isn't recognizing it as a ternary? I'm not quite sure tbh.