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cageface on May 5, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: A look at modern PHP

Kotlin native might eventually make the JVM superfluous but for now there are a lot of benefits to being on the JVM including great performance, a huge ecosystem of Java libraries, and very battle hardened monitoring and debugging tools.

hocuspocus on May 5, 2020 [–]

> Kotlin native might eventually make the JVM superfluous

That is probably never going to happen. GraalVM native images are a more realistic approach in this space, and even that is not trivial in most cases.

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