Is Kotlin used for frontend?

Web frontends in Kotlin are done through Kotlin JS which has had a very rocky start. When development first started with Kotlin JS its stable release was delayed by about a year, which didn’t help matters with ensuring Kotlin was competitive in the Web Browser (for developing web front-ends).

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Can Kotlin run without JVM?

JetBrains has made available the Kotlin/Native technology, which creates native binaries for Kotlin code so they can run without a Java virtual machine . A beta version of the CLion IDE allows Kotlin programs to be compiled directly to an executable machine-code format.

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