Porting isn’t one of Kotlin’s strong suits. Throughout Kotlin’s lifetime a number of different porting problems have been encountered, from a fragile porting system to lacklustre support for supported platforms. …

Kotlin is used in various areas of GUI development, but hasn’t been used for Embedded GUI development. This type of development sets itself apart from other areas with an emphasis on performance with a small footprint on resource constrained hardware without dedicated graphics hardware and limited RAM, no Windowing System…

Serverless can be a very confusing term that means different things to different people depending on who you talk to, which is a bit like Functional programming. Unfortunately there is no standard meaning used for Serverless that everyone agrees on. …

Many different platforms are supported by Kotlin Native however most of the focus goes to mobile platforms. This heavy focus has caused a lack of focus on Linux platforms which should be receiving the same amount of support as the mobile platforms. The message being presented in the What to…

One time I came across a YouTube video where part of the video title included Reactive. Upon looking at the title I was about to dismiss the video as yet another one going into reactive concepts (for a different area), however there was more than meets the eye in the…

This article will cover a basic introduction to Linux development using Kotlin via Kotlin Native. Not all native development on the Linux platform is system level, and there are plenty of opportunities to do development at a high level while still having some (albeit limited) low level access. …

On the open source side there is a saying, ”scratch your own itch”. I prefer the alternative saying, ”fulfil your own need”. My need to fulfil is to have a easy/quick way to develop native GUI applications on Linux (also includes the IoT area) that provides reasonably good performance, is…

When Kotlin Native was first released the platform was originally designed to cover iOS, desktop, tooling, and infrastructure development. Since then Kotlin Native has been used in other areas like embedded development, however there has been no big push for IoT (Internet of Things) development. The IoT market is estimated…

With Google moving in the direction of doing views declaratively in code instead of XML for Android development there is a lot of interest in a library they are developing. Enter in JetPack Compose which allows views in a Android app to be developed in Kotlin code instead of XML…