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abukroson The intricacies of the Kotlin type system

Wow! Nice article! I'm thrilled to know more about Kotlin's type system.

abukroson Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS

I think the way is to write libraries for these use-cases. There is already a persistence lib for Kotlin Native called KNArch.db https://github.com/touchlab/knarch.db and it supports Android too.

We are already using libraries to make easier to use background threads (RxJava, RxSwift) so I don't think it's that hard to implement a cross platform lib for that purpose. JetBrains is already trying to tackle the task with Coroutines for Kotlin Native: https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/tree/master/nat...

abukroson Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS

Yes. That’s a problem for MP too. But maybe you can select a proper slice of the application that can work without these libs and implement that code as a shared MP lib.

abukroson The impact of coroutines on async computation

What do you guys think about how it compares to Rx? There are opinions about they are on a different abstraction level so they don't compete with each other.