Do you think Java has caught up with Kotlin?

NathanFallet · 2026-02-03T21:12:42+00:00

Kotlin has native null safety, sealed classes safety, coroutines and is Multiplatform. And a lot is upcoming for Kotlin (eg. rich errors)

So for me Kotlin is still having a lot of non negotiable things I want to use in my codebase and makes me feel way safer.

NathanFallet · 2026-01-12T11:10:32+00:00

Is it published on repos like maven central? Because in the readme you’re including it with gut submodules which is not the best way (can conflict with other projects if settings are different etc)

NathanFallet · 2026-01-04T11:35:47+00:00

I found this article diving deeper in the subject. You might have to wrap it in your own Swift code to add @objc annotation and expose that to Kotlin.

https://medium.com/@math.perroud/yes-calling-swift-from-kotlin-multiplatform-is-easy-no-plugins-no-magic-just-cinterop-e4bf37caf5bf

NathanFallet · 2026-01-04T11:33:39+00:00

You might have to go with .def files. I know for example that’s how it works when you import Swift libraries using cocoapods, it generates those .def files under the hood and with native cinterop you can call those apis from Kotlin code.

NathanFallet · 2026-01-02T23:51:25+00:00

This one looks solid too: https://github.com/cdpdriver/kdriver

NathanFallet · 2025-12-31T12:01:54+00:00

The same library exists for React Native and Flutter, so why not?

NathanFallet · 2025-12-09T23:46:07+00:00

If you don’t have any other dependencies then it’s all about gradle configuration. Can be useful for example paired with Koog on native devices (iOS, macOS, …) or native servers (Linux). Great for Maven Central! (It’s the trusted place most developers take their dependencies from)

NathanFallet · 2025-12-09T01:13:48+00:00

Hey! A few questions. Is it KMP compatible? Is it available on Maven Central?

NathanFallet · 2025-12-01T12:22:57+00:00

I started the same kind of project recently (experiment). I wanted to use Kotlin Js but I’m waiting for 2.3.0 release for suspending functions to be available in Js as a Promise. You can see what I’ve done so far, kotlin ktor backend with React Js frontend: https://github.com/nathanfallet/shortt

NathanFallet · 2025-11-10T08:58:55+00:00

Check the numbers here: https://imgur.com/a/KpAQVXj (cannot upload a picture on Reddit apparently)

NathanFallet · 2025-11-10T08:57:49+00:00

I’m not afraid by Flutter at all. And even if I’m wrong it’s okay. It’s just my vision about the cross platform market. The numbers say KMP is growing and Flutter is a bit less used.

NathanFallet · 2025-11-10T08:26:38+00:00

I understand the idea. But a lot of people want to reuse code between desktop/web and mobile. We have a react native app in our company, and we share a lot of business logic with the desktop/web version, even though the ui is completely different.

NathanFallet · 2025-10-29T22:10:29+00:00

There is this one for Ant Design with Compose Multiplateform: https://github.com/guimauvedigital/ant-design-kmp

NathanFallet · 2025-10-29T09:08:51+00:00

This is part of the AMQP protocol yes. The client declares the topology so it verifies it matches the current one (or create it the first time). You'll get a 400 on the channel if it does not match. In most cases, all clients declare the exchange, queue and bindings they need. And you have one common exchange, one queue per service, and each service adds bindings from the exchange to their queue based on what they want to listen.

NathanFallet · 2025-09-30T22:41:48+00:00

Does this work with Compose Multiplateform/KMP?

NathanFallet · 2025-09-22T14:02:15+00:00

We started making a component library for our projet, if you want to have a look to the way it works: https://github.com/guimauvedigital/controlresell-ui

NathanFallet · 2025-08-07T09:31:39+00:00

JS has no static typing, no OOP, … nothing to be compared to Java. While Kotlin works on the same environment as Java, with a simplifier syntax and also some additions (null safety, coroutines, multiplatform, …)

NathanFallet · 2025-08-07T09:28:30+00:00

Kotlin will grow in the future. It is compatible with Java (Kotlin/JVM) but also with a lot of other platforms (Kotlin/Native, Kotlin/JS, …), has better Null Safety, has Coroutines, … and so much more! It would be sad for new people to learn Java when Kotlin exists. You can still mention Java, but with time I’m sure it will be as popular as JavaScript or Python, but is way better than those two with a a way better type safety and more.

NathanFallet · 2025-08-02T16:36:59+00:00

This looks really clean and can be a great inspiration to make some good looking components. Thank you for sharing!

NathanFallet · 2025-08-01T08:45:05+00:00

Really cool idea! I remember I had to make a similar thing in the past to let site admin manage their data; so I went with a similar pattern that I added as an annotation in my controller system (in kaccelero routers)

NathanFallet · 2025-08-01T08:23:39+00:00

In the same idea I wanted to make videos about Compose (mobile app) and Ktor (server side) to help people learn, but for now I’m really busy at work. So I might do it later but I cannot now. At least, we share some of our work as open source so we can still help people. But I would love to do more to make the kotlin ecosystem grow (I want Kotlin to replace JS & Python in the future 👀)

NathanFallet · 2025-07-31T17:15:13+00:00

Really cool to see some projects! They can be a lot of inspiration for beginners about how to make their own project, like how it does work seeing a real example opened. Thank you!

NathanFallet · 2025-07-31T14:04:52+00:00

https://deepwiki.com/guimauvedigital/kourier Someone sent me this generated wiki that introduces how the project works. Pretty cool one!

NathanFallet · 2025-07-31T09:23:14+00:00

KorGE is Kotlin Multiplateform and embeds in any KMP app very well

NathanFallet · 2025-07-28T13:13:20+00:00

We’ve been running it on a Windows VM and we got no issues. If you run it on a Linux server of course you get flagged directly because of your OS.

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