Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines and more

Re:Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines a... by meddlepal on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @11:44AM (#13765309)

Personally I'm intrigued by Kotlin Native as a replacement for Python and Go tools without requiring the JVM.

I find it's a fundamentally better language than both and so being able to write CLI tools and other smaller stuff in it would be nice while still being able to leverage Kotlin + JVM on the backend would also be nice.

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Re:Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines a... by jug on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:33PM (#13768629)

Same - a common language for JVM, JS, Native is both unique and intriguing to me. These are three really big targets. It's not that it would be unique in being a higher level compiled language or a language making Java development more fun to me, but being a common languge for among the most popular targets besides .NET today.

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Re:Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines a... by tutanchamun on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @04:55PM (#13768840)

Scala already does that with scala.js (production-ready) and scala-native (don't know if production-ready, probably not since it's only at 0.1 and they want to implement a better GC instead of relying on boehm like now).

Just wanted to point that out in case you didn't know that already.

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Re:Kotlin 1.1 Released with JavaScript Support, Coroutines a... by afastow on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @12:00PM (#13765547)

Fair enough, I might be wrong and there might more of a desire for Kotlin Native than I thought there would be.

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