kotlin-cli | Native Kotlin CLI

kotlin-cli is a Kotlin library. kotlin-cli has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

I love Go - it is simple, compiles to a small, statically linked binary, starts and runs very fast with minimal resources. I also love Kotlin because it is a very expressive Java-based language with great features and a strong standard library. One of the most exciting things going on in the Java world is GraalVM and especially GraalVM Native Image. It compiles Java Bytecode ahead-of-time to produce native (& optionally statically linked) binaries similar to Go. In this project, I write a simple CLI application in Kotlin and compile it using GraalVM Native Image, trying to get the best of both worlds - write Kotlin, get Go-like binaries. Working with GraalVM Native Image is not very smooth, it takes long to compile and some things just don't work with it and/or requires additional configuration (reflect-config.json etc.). The goal of this project is for me to try to do different things with native-image and track its progression. I can see what works out-of-the-box, what needs additional configuration and what does not work at all. It can also serve as an example of how to configure native-image builds for Kotlin in Maven.