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Kotlin sold its soul to Mountain View overloards, while JetBrains it trying to create a Kotlin platform of its own.

Now it is full of @JvmSomething annotations and one needs to rely on KMM for writing portable code across JVM and ART.

Thanks to #KotlinFirst and Google's relutance to improve Android Java, Kotlin will have to choose which eco-system they want to provide a platform first developer experience without forcing devs to write FFI annotations and wrapper libraries.




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