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+Title: The first Local Host Access working version
+Date: 2024-12-09 00:00
+Category: News
+Slug: lha-jvm-macos
+Lang: en
+
+![web-test][web-test]
+
+# Local Host Access
+
+Tiny web server called Local Host Access (**LHA**) is ready to replace
+Local File System Access (**LFSA**) on JVM and macOS: I've generated this
+very article with LHA on macOS. Thus, Kotlin prooved to be a good choice for
+cross-platform development with a minor limitation.
+
+The minor limitation is the fact that 99% of Kotlin is used on JVM. The
+remaining 1% is so-called Kotlin Native for iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
+Thus, when one needs something as simple as to find out if a symlink
+points to a file or directory, that's a dead end, there's no article for
+that on the Internet. For C, there are numerous articles telling to call `stat()`
+function. For Kotlin Native, it's unclear how to properly make such a simple call.
+
+I've actually asked [this specific question][question] in November,
+and still wait for an answer.
+In the meantime, I had to resort to calling `stat` in the shell (aka `system()`).
+
+# December
+
+I plan to implement the first Kotlin -> Python translator to let LHA
+cover as many platforms as the original LFSA in Python.
+
+[web-test]: ../../images/2024_web-test.jpg
+[question]: https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/how-to-call-stat-c-function-to-get-file-type/29541