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In cases, where you need something very small or short, yes, Kotlin-Native is a very good candidate. The performance will be similar to Go though slower (in general) than Kotlin-JVM . But start time and memory footprint will be smaller.

In cases, where you need something very small or short, yes, Kotlin-Native is a very good candidate. The performance will be similar to Go though slower (in general) than Kotlin-JVM . But start time and memory footprint will be smaller.

Another big difference is the memory model : Kotlin/JVM uses the Java memory model, while Kotlin/Native offers its own concurrency and memory model. Also, the dependencies that one can use in Kotlin/JVM and Kotlin/Native projects are different.

However, in the random removal test, Java was over 52 times faster, and Kotlin/Native was 34 times faster (Figure 8).

Conclusion: Is Kotlin/Native production ready? Our assessment after trying Kotlin/Native and Kotlin Multiplatform for a while now was: Kotlin/Native is ready for production , but Kotlin Multiplatform is not, at least for our use case at this moment.

Kotlin/Native is a technology for compiling Kotlin code to native binaries , which can run without a virtual machine. This is something fascinating for someone who is new to Kotlin. So, in this article, I’ll focus more on Kotlin Native platform.

Kotlin native is often compared to React Native (by simplifying): A mobile application (ios&android) made in React Native is considered as hybrid because it embeds JS for the “brain” and UI build in native code.