https://www.bignerdranch.com/blog/exploring-kotlin-native-part-1/
https://cantina.co/kotlin-native-naughty-or-nice/
Is the Kotlin native compiler independent from the Kotlin JVM implementation?
Yes - it uses a separate compiler called Konan which parses Kotlin's 'Abstract Syntax Tree' into the 'LLVM IR' - that is, the 'Intermediate Representation' of source code used by the popular, open source LLVM compiler.