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Touchlab’s Blog
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Touchlab’s Blog is the company blog at touchlab.co, writing about programming. Since 2016, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked as sources on Kotlin Multiplatform, Compose, and Kotlin/Native threading, and on Google's use of KMM and Flutter. Commenters cite the posts as evidence for their points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Touchlab is a mobile development agency focused on modern native mobile accelerated by Kotlin Multiplatform and AI. We've been shipping KMP in production since before it was stable, build the tools used by the community, and can help you scale confidently and efficiently in the AI era.
Most-linked posts?
- /compose-ui-for-ios/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-01
- /KMP-at-google2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-21
What Hacker News says?
It's _very_ early, though, as well. There's not much of an ecosystem for multiplatform yet for desktop projects at all. For macOS you have a way of "making a framework you can use" and that's about it. There is a lot of promise, though, in the mobile space: https://touchlab.co/touchlab-square-kotlin-multiplatform-col... My sense is that as the mobile multiplatform space gets ironed out, the desktop space will benefi…
Comment linking /touchlab-square-kotlin-multiplatform-collaboration/
on “Flutter desktop shells”Submitted Droidcon NYC A.ka. [Sad Puppy] Conference for iOs Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThere's threading, just not as painless as in JVM https://touchlab.co/kotlin-native-stranger-threads-ep-1/ We're even getting early support for multi-threaded coroutines https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.coroutines/blob/native-mt/...
Comment linking /kotlin-native-stranger-threads-ep-1/
on “Making Games with Kotlin”Submitted Kotlin Multiplatform Is Now Production Ready as a story · 1 points
HN discussionQuoting another user in this thread: > One datapoint is that Google rewrote their Google Docs app in KMM (which doesn't include UI, that's Compose Multiplatform), replacing their legacy in-house framework. They intend to write more of their apps in it. https://touchlab.co/KMP-at-google
Comment linking /KMP-at-google
on “Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter?”One datapoint is that Google rewrote their Google Docs app in KMM (which doesn't include UI, that's Compose Multiplatform), replacing their legacy in-house framework. They intend to write more of their apps in it. They also recently offshored some Flutter roles which may be a sign of how central they view Flutter. In a few years it may be in the graveyard. https://touchlab.co/KMP-at-google https://www.reddit.com/r/F…
Comment linking /KMP-at-google
on “Is Kotlin Multiplatform Replacing Flutter?”I've been using Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile (KMM) heavily for the past 2 years on my current YC startup. I'm in the process of removing the entire thing. KMM is an alternative to cross platform mobile libraries like Flutter, React Native, etc. The idea is that we could write all of our mobile app's business logic, networking layer, and caching layer in Kotlin, and KMM will codgen the matching iOS code. "We only need…
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on “Kotlin Multiplatform Is Stable and Production-Ready”It exists: https://touchlab.co/compose-ui-for-ios/
Comment linking /compose-ui-for-ios/
on “No, React Native is not the future”> SwiftUI Complete separate toolkit with its own patterns and semantics. I’d rather use one then learn two. https://touchlab.co/compose-ui-for-ios/
Comment linking /compose-ui-for-ios/
on “No, React Native is not the future”Jetpack Compose (Google's alternative on Android, that also works pretty much anywhere you can run a JVM and others like the web [1], terminals[2], powerpoints[3], iOS[4] if you squint, as well as pretty much anywhere you have an imperative API that you want to transform into a functional model[5]) is three years old and is infinitely more polished and has better tools than anything Apple has put out in all of Swift…
Comment linking /compose-ui-for-ios/
on “30k lines of SwiftUI in production later”