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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by swsieber on Monday November 20, 2017 @09:55AM (#15740239)
That's not quite there though - with React Native, your still running the js engine to run the JavaScript (but your at least using native widgets).

With Kotlin you'll be running compiled code. If you wanted to right now though, you could (should be able to?) use Kotlin to build a React Native app with it's just target.

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Re:Kotlin: A Language with a Bright Future by brango on Monday November 20, 2017 @10:50AM (#15740732)
I was looking into this yesterday. Apparently while there's support for transpiling Kotlin -> JS, more work would be needed to support transpiling for react native[1]. Not sure why.

[1] https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2017/04/use-kotlin-with-np...

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