Hello, i have a question about Kotlin Native, how ...
# kotlin-nativeu
umren
05/19/2017, 12:06 PMHello, i have a question about Kotlin Native, how is team working behind Kotlin Native thinking about memory management? Will Kotlin Native try to compete with Rust with his ownership system or just will bundle another GC into runtime?
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olonho
05/19/2017, 5:25 PMumren: considering nature of Kotlin stdlib we have to implement automated object oriented memory management, so we did
olonho
05/19/2017, 7:24 PMWe consider language/platform as a tool to get job done, not as a tool for world domination. So if some tasks are easier solved with Kotlin/JVM or even Go - we do not mind at all. As you probaly know, Jetbrains got a Go IDE already :). We just beleive that Kotlin/Native could be the best tool for some tasks, not universal, yet mediocre solution for all problems.
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