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Agenda
› Talk Session – Hadi Hariri
› Questions from LINE Android App
Development team
› Kotlin compiler performance
› Kotlin language
› Libraries
› Future of Kotlin
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Talk Session
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Questions from LINE Android App
Development team
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Kotlin compiler performance
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Can you tell us a bit more about the new compiler in Kotlin 1.4, better
inference, faster.
Is there room to make it even faster?.
Improvements in Kotlin native?
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Is there anything we can do to improve compiler performance? (such as
coding style for fast compiling)
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(Compose) How compiler plugins work? Use cases that you think a compiler
plugin could be useful (If any).
Could it make the compiler slower?
What are the risks?
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Gradle shared incremental build support status of annotation processors:
https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/java_plugin.html#state_of_support_in
_popular_annotation_processors
https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/5277
And it was of great help in choosing an annotation tool.
Does JetBrains have a plan like this for KSP?
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Kotlin language
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Contracts to improve compiler’s inference is still experimental, is it due
to technical difficulties?
Possible misuses/abuses?
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Is there any feature of the language that is being used in a different way of
what you originally thought. Could be in a good way, misuse, over use.
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How do you keep up with the needs of developers?
Especially how do you emulate the needs of big codebases so you can better
understand the developers’ pain points and how to evolve the language.
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How do you feel the Kotlin community evolved in the past years, as more
people start to use the language what challenges are you facing?
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Libraries
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MockK is a great solution, and provides features that other mocking libraries
lack such as mocking static method or kotlin object.
But it has many minor issues : https://github.com/mockk/mockk/issues
Can JetBrains provide other alternates mocking library or help to improve
MockK?
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Does JetBrains/Google have a plan to provide tools that follow Android/Kotlin
coding style? (through IntelliJ Editor or AGP Lint checker)
https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/coding-conventions.html
https://developer.android.com/kotlin/style-guide
LINE(and many others) developers are using ktlint, but rules provided by
ktlint do not match Android/Kotlin guidelines.
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Future of Kotlin
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Tell us about how you see the future of the Kotlin language in coming years.
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Is there any plan to implement type class?
Is there any plan to implement private-package accessor modifier like
Scala language?
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[Kotlin Multiplatform]
Do you have a plan to support Flutter x Kotlin? (kotlin-dart?)
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Thank you