Kotlin support

[s0nicyouth]

Hi,
Currently Djinni lacks kotlin support which might be somewhat limited since some kotlin features are not present in Java(e.g. internal visibility).

It would be nice to have kotlin support and I can try to implement it but I have got a couple of questions.

1. Would be it be admitted by the maintainers
2. Can I implement it as a wrapper around existing java generation(package private java class with kotlin wrapper in the same package seems the easiest option) or should I implement fully fledged generation?
3. Could I add kotlin-poet as a dependency for kotlin code generation?

Thanks.

[a4z]

Maintenance of this repo is not at its peak. Frankly, I prefer seeing it go back to Java / Objective-C only, since the maintenance burden with other languages that nobody uses is too high.

For Kotlin, I am not sure. Do you think that is even required? Does it just work with the generated Java source, or is anything missing? Java / Kotlin is not my strongest side, so I might miss some info.

[s0nicyouth]

Kotlin is fully compatible with java.
However java misses some functionality of kotlin. For example it's impossible to declare internal classes in Java which could be not very convenient for I capsulation purposes.

I generate code using Djinni into a separate folder and want to hide the internals of it from the user. I can not use package private as only generated code is allowed in that package and kotlin's internal visibility would be exactly what I need. I can think of a couple workarounds of course but it's not quite convenient.

[a4z]

Understand, but one question. Can you not use Gradle to model internal dependencies?

Anyhow, about a Kotlin generator
I am the only one who cares about the project, and I am not on mobile anymore.
So, that's hard, both knowledge-wise and time-wise. Would you like to join as a maintainer?