I have good hopes for Kotlin native to start being an alternative to things like Rust and Go. The compiler is already there. The ecosystem is just a bit lacking

I have good hopes for Kotlin native to start being an alternative to things like Rust and Go. The compiler is already there. The ecosystem is just a bit lacking with libraries and Kotlin just is not used a lot for things like command line tools and other things where Go tends to be popular. Mostly the focus with Kotlin native is on IOS right now. But you can build windows/linux/mac binaries just as easily. Things like ktor actually support kotlin native as well. And of course there are a growing number of multiplatform libraries and things like the wasm compiler for kotlin getting closer to being ready.