I would like to announce release of Kotlin/Native ...

# kotlin-native

[olonho]

I would like to announce release of Kotlin/Native v0.2, with the following changes:
* Added support for coroutines
* Fixed most stdlib incompatibilities
* Improved memory management performance
* Cross-module inline function support
* Unicode support independent from installed system locales
* Interoperability improvements
* file-based filtering in definition file
* stateless lambdas could be used as C callbacks
* any Unicode string could be passed to C function
* Very basic debugging support
* Improve compilation and linking performance

One could download binaries from
http://download.jetbrains.com/kotlin/native/kotlin-native-linux-0.2.tar.gz and http://download.jetbrains.com/kotlin/native/kotlin-native-macos-0.2.tar.gz
for Linux and Mac hosts respectively.
Please report issues using https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/KT (subsystem Native).

[Ruckus]

olonho: Speaking of subsystems, I cannot set the subsystem for issues I create. Is this an issue with my account, or is this common for all non-JB accounts?

[olonho]

yes, that could be the problem of YouTrack configuration, so just use <Native> in issue description for now

[Ruckus]

Will do, thanks

[spierce7]

Awesome news! Nice improvements! I can't wait for native threading support!

[olonho]

in some sense, native threads are already supported, as you may wrtite multithreaded programs in Kotlin, as sketched in https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/tree/master/samples/concurrent

[spierce7]

Right, serializing and deserializing is just too painful though. I'm just going to wait for native threading support 🙂

[tunedal]

Hm, the commit tagged as "v0.2.0" (d95f419) is followed by another (fc4fc43) that says "Bump version to 0.2". Which one is the release version?

[olonho]

Branch v0.2-fixes reflects the release, will update tags tomorrow

[benleggiero]

Unicode?! Woah that's huge! Do you support extended grapheme clusters? UTF-32?

[olonho]

Utf-16 with surrogates