SKIE: Narrow the gap between Kotlin and Swift

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SKIE (Sky) claims to make Kotlin Multiplatform frameworks Swift-friendly by generating Swift overlays that restore compile-time safety (exhaustive switches for enums, a generated onEnumOf helper for sealed hierarchies), add cancellation to suspend functions and flows with proper scope behavior, and embed hand-written Swift code bundling (Objective‑C bridge headers) so Swift classes can observe Kotlin state (preview observingView for SwiftUI). Live demos and CI show it works; team runs ~1,000 acceptance tests across ~4,000 libraries; 0.9 release centralizes Gradle plugin and supports Kotlin 1.8.0–2.0.20, but some features remain experimental.

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1. 0:00SKIE introduction
2. 2:28Kotlin API pain in Swift
3. 3:10Enums bridging safely
4. 5:15Sealed classes in Swift
5. 7:46Suspend functions and flows
6. 10:16Global declarations
7. 11:17Flows in SwiftUI
8. 13:29Swift code bundling
9. 18:32Advanced plugin API
10. 20:18Default args and plans
11. 21:23Interface extensions
12. 23:10Incremental adoption
13. 24:15Getting started
14. 26:19Release 0.9 improvements
15. 28:26Roadmap and features
16. 35:05FAQ about SKIE
17. 37:15After Swift export
18. 38:43Q&A

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