Hi everyone, for those interested I wrote a small ...

# kotlin-native

[ftomassetti]

Hi everyone, for those interested I wrote a small tutorial on Kotlin native. I would love to hear your opinion on it: https://superkotlin.com/kotlin-native/

[badlogic]

"reusing all native libraries" you can consume native code that follows the C ABI, but not easily consume C++, Rust, Swift, etc. without wrapping them in C

[badlogic]

You out "konan.version" in the properties file but then explicitly specify the KN Gradle plugin version in the build dependencies. I guess that's ok, but I like having a single version truth.

[badlogic]

Oh my, the macOS target is called macbook?

[badlogic]

You state which OS KN supports, including Linux, but don't specify the target name for Linux.

[badlogic]

Ugh, default extension for executables is kexe? KN folks, what were you thinking :p

[badlogic]

Aha, you also found the def file mechanism lacking :) Guess I should send a PR for that.

[badlogic]

setRGB demonstrates how painful bit fiddling is in Kotlin overall, which makes me very sad. Would be nice to get better bit fiddling support at least in KN.

[badlogic]

@ftomassetti great article, a paragraph on native memory management would be nice, but other than that it's a very nice intro to KN.

[ftomassetti]

Hi Mario, this is very helpful feedback. Thanks a million!

[ftomassetti]

In the next day I will fix some of these issues and add your name in a note to thank you

[nish]

Setup the project using the kotlin native gradle plugin

Instead of creating all the files, one could use gradle init

[nish]

I feel like casually just mentioning the lack of editor support as a side note at the end of the article is not great

[tunedal]

In setRGB, couldn't rowBuffer.plus(3 * x + 1)!!.reinterpret()[0] be written as rowBuffer[3 * x + 1]?

[nish]

I did debugging in jvm version of kotlin and jvm version of cinterop

These are not the same as Kotlin native

[badlogic]

Wait, cinterop works in Kotlin for the JVM? That'd be very surprising.

[badlogic]

@ftomassetti no worries, happy to help. no need to mention me in a note 🙂

[ftomassetti]

@nish right, editor support is a big deal but it should be clear that Kotlin native is something to be used in the future, not right now, in that sense I think editor support will not be a problem when the rest of the system will be more mature. Still, I should stress it more and sooner, thanks for pointing that out!