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Re:Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 by danielscrubs on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @12:59AM (#25133651)
Very nice. I just wish that they wouldn’t have used a JVM language, it just feels so constrained. I want to be able to use godbolt.
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Re:Facebook is using Kotlin to pave the way to Software 2.0 by mbStavola on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:47PM (#25142236)
Kotlin has the ability to target machine code using Kotlin Native[1], which utilizes LLVM as the backend.

[1]: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/native-overview.html

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