Feature: support kotlin

[xaaksw]

Type of feature

✨ Feature

Current behavior

No response

Suggested feature

Support kotlin language, u can check kotlin website they have a play ground already, maybe integrate with them

Additional context

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[hatemhosny]

Thank you
Please see #516 (comment)

[hatemhosny]

May be if this gets bootstrapped/self-hosted (compiles itself)
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/js-overview.html

[xaaksw]

What about integrating with this ,

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-playground

@hatemhosny

[hatemhosny]

What about integrating with this ,

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-playground

@hatemhosny

sorry @xaaksw , I did not notice your comment.

I see that kotlin playground sends the code to a server to compile. This is against the philosophy of LiveCodes being a client-side app with all compilation strictly occurs in the browser as discussed here and here.

Having said that, I'm exploring the idea of allowing custom user-provided plugins that allows using custom compilers even if it is not supported by LiveCodes out-of-the-box (see #481). I think Kotlin can be one of the first candidates for such solution. I may even provide it as an example for using plugins.

Thanks again

[Swamp2k9]

It looks like you can use your own servers for compiling now (from the linked GitHub page):

You can also overwrite the server where the code will be sent to be compiled and analyzed (for example if you host a server instance that includes your own Kotlin libraries). For that you can set the data-server attribute.