kotlinx.coroutines VS Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries

Now, let's consider an example. For instance, let's create a Kotlin/JVM project with kotlinx.coroutines library as a dependency.

Greetings community, I just submited a PR to Kotlin coroutines with two additional operators :

The harder parts of Kotlin are going to be things like kotlinx.coroutines, but that's just a library, not a core part of the language. It's about as hard to learn as a comparable library in another language, like the Task Parallel Library in .NET.

Kotlin has coroutines that are supported by the language and implemented by a library (the implementation remains platform-dependent): kotlinx.coroutines and a sandbox environment is available here to try it out.

That said, since it seems like you're doing UI stuff (Android?), you're best off doing all of the UI code in coroutines, using Dispatchers.Main as a context (as provided by one of the platform-specific coroutine libraries), since this will guarantee that your UI code will be safely run in the UI thread.

There's nothing you can do. However, Kotlin's official provides several libraries, so the scope that can be achieved using them is by no means small. Also, AAkira/Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries introduces several famous libraries created with Kotlin Multiplatform, which can be helpful. However, it can be quite disappointing when certain environments are not supported. But let's think of it as an opportunity! Let's become the first person to implement it!

Now if you're just writing a crud app (what my hobby project is) and you use compose multiplatform for your UI, SQLDelight for persistence, and one of the many MPP architecture libraries, you don't have to write a wrapper.

We did encounter some problems as a result of our ignorance. When we started on the project, there was very little information on the implementation of KMM, so we had to solve all of the issues ourselves. The Kotlin Multiplatform community is growing rapidly with more articles and reports appearing at conferences and meetups. There are channels in Slack and Telegram, libraries for Kotlin Multiplatform, and so on, plenty of information sources available.

From https://github.com/AAkira/Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries#cipher: https://github.com/korlibs/krypto https://github.com/ionspin/kotlin-multiplatform-libsodium

There is a fair selection of libs listed here: Kotlin-Multiplatform-Libraries If you need some deeper insights drop me a DM