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		pjmlp on Dec 11, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Making Games with Kotlin Kotlin/Native suffers from not having neither the same sematics as Kotlin on the JVM, nor the large pool of available libraries or performance.

juskrey on Dec 11, 2019 [–]

Most importantly, Kotlin Native has no proper multithreading, it only uses JS-style single thread

rabenblut on Dec 11, 2019 | [–]

There's threading, just not as painless as in JVM

https://touchlab.co/kotlin-native-stranger-threads-ep-1/

We're even getting early support for multi-threaded coroutines

https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/native-mt/...

juskrey on Dec 11, 2019 | | [–]

Oh, multithreaded coroutines will be really good news when working properly

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