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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 There is a wasm target as well. Jetbrains is just doing everything these days... 

They are even doing native (arm + x86) with C bindings...
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hodlbod | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wow, that's pretty surprising. Is kotlin better than rust? I have zero exposure to kotlin
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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 For applications, I think so. Rust is too low level for apps. Reading Rust is painful.
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 noone told me!
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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Come to kotlin, Will. :)
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 ew
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semisol | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Kotlin is the way.
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sure if you’re on the jvm
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hodlbod | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Oh yeah, jvm. If I were to go java, I'd use clojure
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jb55 | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I do like functional programming but dynamic langs still scare me for large apps
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hodlbod | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm afraid now that I've embraced types I won't be able to go back 😢
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semisol | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Kotlin supports types. And it has proper null checks unlike Java
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semisol | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I used it for a web app a few years ago.

Was not good as frameworks like Svelte. But also was somewhat better than writing raw JS
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Vitor Pamplona | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Kotlin compiles to native :)
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frphank | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 no one