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Sure. The hard part of iOS is the JIT ban, Native Image can make macOS binaries just fine. > The Android ecosystem became Kotlin ecosystem because Google said
by mike_hearn 9mo ago
Sure. The hard part of iOS is the JIT ban, Native Image can make macOS binaries just fine.
> The Android ecosystem became Kotlin ecosystem because Google said so, not because it was successful
This is not how I remember events unfolding. I used Kotlin before Google ever talked about it and it was doing fine as a language for desktop and backend JVM apps. When Google started officially supporting it, it was just recognizing that Android developers were already organically adopting it at scale.