Alberto Giunta albertogiunta

My call for Kotlin as a major frontend language

I try to push for quite a long time for first class support for WebAssembly in Kotlin because I really believe that frontend development is a domain where Kotlin can be as strong as in mobile, and because this is something that would also help to increase even more the adoption on server-side.

I truly appreciate all the work already done by Kotlin/JS and Kotlin/Native teams. The dead code elimination tool and the initial WebAssembly support in Kotlin/Native are important steps in the right direction. But I believe that Kotlin needs now to make frontend a real priority to take it to the next level.

Need for a consistent and unified web frontend strategy

The first point I would like to raise is that what Kotlin needs IMO is a consistent strategy about web frontend wich includes both Javascript and WebAssembly related efforts. I can u

	import android.text.SpannableStringBuilder;
	import java.util.ArrayDeque;
	import java.util.Deque;

	import static android.text.Spanned.SPAN_INCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE;

	/** A {@link SpannableStringBuilder} wrapper whose API doesn't make me want to stab my eyes out. */
	public class Truss {
	private final SpannableStringBuilder builder;
	private final Deque<Span> stack;

	/*
	* Copyright 2014 Chris Banes
	*
	* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
	* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
	* You may obtain a copy of the License at
	*
	* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
	*
	* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

	import java.time.*;
	import java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
	import java.time.format.FormatStyle;
	import java.time.temporal.ChronoUnit;
	import java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters;
	import java.util.*;

	import static java.time.temporal.TemporalAdjusters.*;

	public class Java8DateTimeExamples {

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	// Based on CalFileParser (https://github.com/controlz/CalFileParser) by Michael Mottola
	// Author: @LucaTNT
	// My code is MIT licensed as well

	// Inserisci qui dove salvare il file ICS sistemato
	$saveTo = '/Users/luca/Downloads/AddToiCal.ics';

	/*
	* CalFileParser