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> Thus Kotlin will always be a guest language If you a writing libraries for the JVM, Java is preferred to Kotlin because it does not drag along a standard lib
by msgilligan 2y ago
> Thus Kotlin will always be a guest language
If you a writing libraries for the JVM, Java is preferred to Kotlin because it does not drag along a standard library dependency.
To be fair there is Kotlin Multiplatform where this is not the case. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html https://kotlinlang.org/docs/multiplatform.html
- pjmlp 2y agoYes, and it has the issue of having its own way of #ifdef, because not all platforms offer the same semantics. It is no different than writing C code across UNIX, Windows, mainframe, microcomputers and embedded, consoles, and somehow work across all of them.