I totally agree with you about SSL. That's what I meant with abstracting I/O on top of platform-primitives. Similar to how the Reqwest crate in Rust-land uses

I totally agree with you about SSL. That's what I meant with abstracting I/O on top of platform-primitives. Similar to how the Reqwest crate in Rust-land uses fetch on WASM and something else for other platforms. For the developer the API to define requests remains the same. Flutter/Dart also does something similar in its http packages. I would like to see the same thing but decoupled from the UI framework. edit: Rust Cargo and Kotlin multi-platform Gradle tooling are heading in the right direction. Both have support for defining a common interface with platform-specific implementations and good support for building against various target platforms.