# Getting started
Add simdjson-kotlin to your build, check the platform requirements, and parse your first document.
simdjson-kotlin is a Kotlin Multiplatform port of
[simdjson](https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson), a JSON parser that uses SIMD
instructions to parse gigabytes of JSON per second, based on the paper
[Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second](https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.08318). The
JVM implementation is based on
[simdjson-java](https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson-java).
## What's next