Update to Kotlin 1.9.20 + add Wasm #76
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This looks great @serras, thank you!
Something I'm not convinced of KMP in general is that we are exporting binaries to all these platforms such as JS, WasmJS, Native etc for years now but I'm yet to see an example of Arrow in other platforms that are not Android or the JVM.
For what I can see KMP is useful when your target lang in those platforms is also Kotlin but none of the libraries exported to JS, are usable from the main langs on those platforms.
Do we have any examples of what it looks like to consume Arrow from TS, JS or any of those languages? How do suspend functions work if they do at all? . Our last tests in xef.ai show features like suspend don't work even when you use @JSExport and similar.
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I don't think Arrow suits a lot into something to be consumed by JS or TS, since you have native libraries doing similar things in those ecosystems. My point of view is that we should support those platforms so that people using KMP in them can also use Arrow in the Kotlin portion. This is just a drop in the ocean, but one of my personal projects, https://deck.run/, compiles to JS from Kotlin, and uses Arrow. This wouldn't have been possible had we not published the JS versions of the libraries. |
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Merged! Could anybody make a new release, so we can update the dependency? |
Do you not have the right permissions? 🤔 I'm on it! |
This way we can add a new shiny WebAssembly target to Arrow
Furthermore, I've realized that we have several cases of duplicated code between JS and Native. Instead of adding yet another duplication with Wasm, I've added a
nonJvmMainsource set to gather all those.