seabaylea commented on issue #42: Add support for Kotlin actions URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-openwhisk-runtime-java/issues/42#issuecomment-388029720 There's really two reasons for having a specific Kotlin runtime: 1. Platform and dependencies As @mkouba says, it means that we can embed the Kotlin standard library into the runtime and remove the need to include it in the action. It also means that in the future we have the option to switch to kotlin-native in the future if it makes sense to. 2. Programming model and customisations It makes it much easer to customise for Kotlin and adopt a more idiomatic programming model. For example, experimental Kotlin runtime does simple things like append the "Kt" to the class name for you. The experimental runtime also adds a data class based API so that you can avoid having to work with JSON directly. The next step would be to look more at how to implement a Kotlin idiomatic async API.
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