From a7a930490cf04dbf6c3e92743fde9213d0a3af19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nikolay Igotti Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 21:58:45 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Small release notes update. --- RELEASE_NOTES.md | 13 +++++++------ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.md b/RELEASE_NOTES.md index 2836bc0e8d6..487e0613356 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES.md +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.md @@ -1,9 +1,10 @@ -# Early Access Preview of Kotlin/Native # +# Kotlin/Native backend, Beta version # ## Introduction ## - _Kotlin/Native_ is a LLVM backend for the Kotlin compiler. It consists of a machine code generation facility using -the LLVM toolchain and a native runtime implementation. + _Kotlin/Native_ is an LLVM backend for the Kotlin compiler. +It consists of a machine code generation facility using the LLVM toolchain +and a native runtime implementation. _Kotlin/Native_ is primarily designed to allow compilation for platforms where virtual machines are not desirable or possible (such as iOS or embedded targets), @@ -70,13 +71,13 @@ For documentation on C interoperability stubs see INTEROP.md. *** DO NOT USE THIS PREVIEW RELEASE FOR ANY PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS *** - This is purely a technology preview of _Kotlin/Native_ technology, and is not yet tuned + This beta version of _Kotlin/Native_ technology is not yet tuned for benchmarking and competitive analysis of any kind. ### Standard Library ### - The standard library in _Kotlin/Native_ is known to be mostly complete, please report us -missing functionality. Note, that standard Java APIs, such as `java.lang.Math` or `java.io` + The standard library in _Kotlin/Native_ is known match common standard library in other Kotlin variants. + Note, that standard Java APIs, such as `java.math.BigDecimal` or `java.io` is not available in current _Kotlin_ standard library, but using C interoperability, one could call similar APIs from the POSIX library, see this [`sample`](https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin-native/blob/master/samples/csvparser). Also Kotlin/Native standard library contains certain native-specific extensions, mostly around