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Re:The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin by pjmlp on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @10:28AM (#28616679)
Guest languages are always an impedance mismatch with the underlying platform.

I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

I did vote against stuff like GWT already several times, and every time it has been proven to have been the right decision, when things went hot.

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Re:The Hitchhiker's Guide to Kotlin by smallerfish on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @02:03PM (#28619615)
> I don't buy into sharing source files instead of clean separation via Web APIs, the additional tooling complexity isn't worth the pain.

Fair enough, that's a different argument from the one you posed upthread though. The ecosystem and tooling are very much there.

Happy to disagree on architectural merit of the approach. Personally I'm done with javascript/typescript for any future products/teams I build, and am glad to have a viable solution.

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