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wofo | 8 days ago

OP here, thanks for submitting!

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bpavuk|8 days ago

hey, the idea of Krossover is actually dope! my sole question is, why does it exist?

I understand that one might call Rust from Kotlin for performance reasons (I do that often, Mozilla does, some others too), but Kotlin from Rust? where would it be useful?

no snark or subtext here, I'm genuinely curious

wofo|8 days ago

Calling Kotlin from Rust (and other languages) is useful when you want access to an existing Kotlin codebase and would rather avoid creating a full-blown port. I guess most people don't do things like this because creating bindings for languages that are not C (or C-like) is usually cumbersome. Krossover is trying to fill that gap for Kotlin. Does that make sense?

vinhnx|7 days ago

You're welcome! Love the article, I hope you write more.

obsidianbases1|8 days ago

How'd you get the notice that this was submitted so quickly?

bombcar|8 days ago

If you watch your refers you'll see HN pretty easily. Could be even setup as a notification.