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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by twh270 on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:00AM (#31861918)
Not sure what you mean by "- OCaml vs Kotlin: no JVM needed." as Kotlin has support for native and JavaScript compilation, and WASM via native.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by pjmlp on Friday June 24, 2022 @11:44AM (#31864005)
Kotlin has a crude support for native, and they had to reboot the implementation as they got clever and went with a memory model incompatible with JVM and JS GCs, thus making code portability an headache.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by thayne on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:53AM (#31863020)
Maybe it's changed in the year or so since I looked at kotlin, but my impression when I did look at it was support for anything other than the JVM was definitely second class
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by wiseowise on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:26PM (#31866126)
Did you even try it? It still requires Java, Gradle and Kotlin compiler to work. Also, good luck making it work without using Intellij.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by toolslive on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:56AM (#31863094)
so it's either a JVM or either no libraries?
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