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Discussion on: Q: How Much of "the Kotlin Way" Is the Right Way?

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Ian Thomas • Edited

The general answer to rewriting libs in idiomatic kotlin is often to provide a more concise API for kotlin consumers. In many cases this could be achieved just writing extension methods and many libraries fall in this category such as core Android having many kotlin extensions, gson being another example. The strong uptick in libs lately is for kotlin MPP which I believe provides what you really want. Kotlin can provide the cross platform foundation and existing libraries on target platforms can help acceleration of development. For instance writing code that runs on node, android, and iOS. In this case you will end up using many platform specific libraries which is terrific while also mixing in new libs that simplify multiplatform.