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I wonder why not Kotlin Multiplatform. I’ve been using LLMs to build with KMP for about 10 months and it’s a delight and you can use native Swift UI when you wa

• willsmith72 7d ago
  I've been out of the app world for ages, always liked kotlin. Can you speak more about multiplatform?
  • dools 7d ago
    Well the thing is that the server code is basically Java, and the only bad thing about Java is writing it but since I don’t have to write it, it’s actually a really solid option. Then you have shared UI (don’t use WASM for web though it’s terrible, I use React for the web frontend) but you can switch to some or all native components when you need to on any platform. So for example I needed native components for secure storage and passkeys and did that by mixing in some swift on iOS and using a JNI native bridge on macOS and Windows. I created a standardised bootstrap for all our projects here starting from the KMP wizard: https://bitbucket.org/workingsoftware/kmpbootstrap/src/main/ https://bitbucket.org/workingsoftware/kmpbootstrap/src/main/ The reason it the bootstrap has all platforms included is that adding in iOS, android and desktop after you have already created the project is a bit of a hassle compared with just always having the same structure even if you only want to use web. Then you can easily add on native apps later if you like.
• mrr7337 7d ago
  Not enough community around it. Shopify would have to pioneer a lot more than they would like to get it working for their use case.