Moving to Kotlin/native, away from JVM: stories

[batect]

Moving to Kotlin/native, away from JVM: stories

[charleskorn]

Great idea, thanks for the suggestion @binkley.

Most of the work involved is not batect-specific, and largely revolves around library support for Kotlin/Native.

For example, last time I checked, Spek didn't yet support Kotlin/Native but there was talk of doing that. Looking at the code now, it looks like they've restructured the library to support it in the future, but haven't yet implemented it.

Once we're able to run the tests under Kotlin/Native, that then opens the floodgates to all the other things that need to be migrated (which will largely revolve around replacing JVM libraries with their native equivalents - eg. replacing commons-compress with something like libarchive, okhttp with libcurl).

[binkley]

Thanks for a solid answer. My takeaway is progress on Kotlin/native for batect is blocked by other dependencies.

[charleskorn]

I'm going to close this for now to keep the issues list on GitHub clean, but I will definitely add some stories once the basic building blocks are in place for the migration.