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Kotlin Native doesn't exist beyond pre-alpha software at this point, so the the question is a bit premature. In 3-5 years Kotlin might be where Swift is now, b
by virtualwhys 9y ago
Kotlin Native doesn't exist beyond pre-alpha software at this point, so the the question is a bit premature.
In 3-5 years Kotlin might be where Swift is now, but there's nothing guaranteed, just coming up with a GC solution alone is a gigantic engineering effort -- Kotlin, like Scala, Clojure, etc. all benefit from world class GCs, just by being hosted on the JVM. With LLVM you essentially start from scratch, same for porting Java libraries, there's a ton of work involved.
tl;dr; for now it's separate languages for iOS and Android unless you cut some corners with React Native to avoid writing the same app twice.
- LeoNatan25 9y agoPlease nobody cut corners with React "Native" or other some such nonsense.
- clouddrover 9y agoOr things like Delphi are an option for cross platform mobile development. Object Pascal is quite nice these days: https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi