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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.
