Kotlin Multiplatform Alchemy: Making Gold out of Your Swift Interop

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Kotlin/Swift interop currently maps via an Objective‑C bridge so Swift Export Tool aims to replace the ugly ObjC surface and already generates nicer Swift sources for classes, nullability, lists/maps and extension functions while still lacking coroutines, preserving generics, or supporting inheritance. Practical fixes include renaming and hiding APIs, exporting KDOC and using should refine in swift plus KMP native coroutines or community libs to get proper cancellation for suspend functions; data classes, inline functions and varargs remain risky.

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1. 0:00Kotlin Swift interop challenges
2. 4:42Current state of interop
3. 10:05Eight techniques to improve interop
4. 26:07Future of interop with Swift Export
5. 30:30Key takeaways

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