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Wed Oct 21 2026
The Aardink multiplatform migration was planned as a document an agent could carry out step by step. The review after five PRs found eight items marked done that were not, and CI had been red for three of them.
Aardink goes multiplatform - part 4 of 7
Mon Oct 19 2026
Aardink 0.5.0 runs the same Compose code editor on Android, desktop, and the web, with an npm package that looks like Monaco from JavaScript. It works well for small files, and this post covers where it doesn't, with numbers.
Aardink goes multiplatform - part 3 of 7
Mon Oct 12 2026
Running Kotlin in the browser through WebAssembly turned up problems the JVM had hidden: a regex engine that punishes lookbehinds, a quadratic tokeniser, one thread for everything, and no system fonts.
Aardink goes multiplatform - part 2 of 7
Mon Oct 05 2026
Aardink went from an Android-only library to Kotlin Multiplatform in one release without Android users changing a line. The order of the work and the checks around it mattered more than moving the files.
Aardink goes multiplatform - part 1 of 7
Mon Sep 28 2026
Kotlin Multiplatform shares Kotlin code between Android, the desktop, and the browser, and Compose Multiplatform shares the UI on top of it. Why I picked the pair for my Aardink code editor over .NET MAUI and the other ways to share code, and how they fit together in a real library.
Sat Sep 12 2026
A small follow-up to the 0.4.0 release: the sample app mascot and launcher icon now render from themed vector layers, and the toolchain moves to the latest Kotlin and Compose BOM.
Mon Sep 07 2026
Aardink 0.4.0 is the biggest release yet: richer built-in language services for Kotlin, JSON, XML, HTML and TOML, a fuller LSP-style contract with code actions, rename and signature help, new editor UI to show it all, and a new module that connects the editor to a real external language server.
