sdeleuze

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

d-plaindoux

package control

trait Applicative[M[_]] extends Functor[M] {

  def pure[A](a: A): M[A]

  def applicative[A, B](f: M[A => B])(a: M[A]): M[B]

  override def map[A, B](f: A => B)(a: M[A]): M[B] = applicative(pure(f))(a)