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Kotlin/Native suffers from not having neither the same sematics as Kotlin on the JVM, nor the large pool of available libraries or performance.


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


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/...


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




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