<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 16, 2016, at 1:35 PM, Tony Constantinides via swift-users <<a href="mailto:swift-users@swift.org" class="">swift-users@swift.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="font-family: Alegreya-Regular; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Kotlin does not run on iOS without some custom VM (Robot VM) which would kill performance.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">If you mean RoboVM, it claims to use ahead-of-time compilation of Java to native code, so there shouldn’t be much of a performance penalty. (Definitely a <i class="">size</i> penalty, though!) However, RoboVM appears to have been discontinued.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—Jens</div></body></html>