I was expecting a a link to the source code after the "written in C".
Re:Minikotlin
by toprakdeviren on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:16PM
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I'll release it as open source, but the Kavak library isn't quite ready for open source yet, at least not from my perspective.
Re:Minikotlin
by pelagicAustral on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:44AM
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Its got that Claude Design thing about it, but it's pleasant, I don't mind the generated designs at all...
Yeah, I hate the LLM wording too
Re:Minikotlin
by fishfasell on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:14AM
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This is one thing I can't stand about current LLMs. I can't put my finger on it but AI written English is so obvious
Re:Minikotlin
by nozzlegear on Friday July 17, 2026 @11:48AM
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Its the uncanny valley. There's just something about it as a whole that makes it seem obviously not human.
Re:Minikotlin
by toprakdeviren on Friday July 17, 2026 @10:09PM
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Thanks! And no, that’s not really the goal.
This is just one piece of a much bigger ecosystem. The real goal is to solve the portability problem.
MiniSwift, MiniSharp, and MiniKotlin are all parts of another project I’m building called Kavak.
The idea is simple: people should be able to keep using the language and platform they already know, while still being able to target other platforms with the same application.
The browser playground is mostly a way to make the compiler instantly accessible. You can open it anywhere, experiment, debug, and see how everything works without installing anything. But it’s only one part of the bigger picture.
Is the expectation that people write kotlin in their browser? How do people work this into their development workflow? Is this just a neat demo?