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by bjconlan 2055 days ago
This looks interesting, having skia as the drawing foundation and reactive as a core element sounds like they’re rewriting a flutter like framework but on the jvm instead of dartvm. Jetbrains sometimes dogfoods their products so I hope to see this technology exercised into utility
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This is interesting, in theory it could open a path for their IDEs to go native. This coupled with Kotlin native of course.
Maybe, but for now kotlin native is much slower than kotlin JVM. The JVM is a piece of art. The current jetbrains product UI system is also quite impressive and based on ... Swing...