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pjmlp • today at 5:03 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

It is the Java Virtual Machine for a reason.

Without Google's godfather, Kotlin would be gone for now.

Kotlin is so great, where is the Kotlin Virtual Machine, showing how Kotlin can stand on its own?


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jayd16 • today at 5:46 PM

Uhm, Kotlin does compile to native without the JVM doesn't it? It runs in the JVM for Java interop, no?

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/native-overview.html

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