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As well as the JVM, there is Kotlin/Native, based on LLVM. This allows a Kotlin mobile app to run on JVM in Android and as a compiled binary on iOS. It can also

• pjmlp 7y ago
  Kotlin/Native suffers from not having neither the same sematics as Kotlin on the JVM, nor the large pool of available libraries or performance.
  • juskrey 7y ago
    Most importantly, Kotlin Native has no proper multithreading, it only uses JS-style single thread
    • rabenblut 7y ago
      There's threading, just not as painless as in JVM https://touchlab.co/kotlin-native-stranger-threads-ep-1/ https://touchlab.co/kotlin-native-stranger-threads-ep-1/ We're even getting early support for multi-threaded coroutines https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/native-mt/kotlin-native-sharing.md https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/native-mt/...
      • juskrey 7y ago
        Oh, multithreaded coroutines will be really good news when working properly