JetBrains has up to date its Kotlin language roadmap, with key priorities that embody extra environment friendly knowledge dealing with, elevated abstraction, and enhanced efficiency. The corporate additionally promised quicker code completion, highlighting, and search, together with extra secure code evaluation, within the K2-based IntelliJ IDEA plugin.
The Kotlin roadmap was up to date in late-September, and the subsequent replace is deliberate for February 2025. Different targets for Kotlin name for bettering compiler diagnostics, enabling the compiler to generate JVM default strategies, implementing a brand new multiplatform API for the usual library, and implementing a brand new Dokka Gradle plugin based mostly on Dokkatoo. Assist for the WebAssembly Part Mannequin in Kotlin/Wasm and help for debugging inline capabilities on Android are also on the agenda.
The K2-based IntelliJ Thought plugin, in the meantime, is about to supply quicker code completion together with highlighting, search, and extra secure code evaluation. And Kotlin Multiplatform, for sharing code throughout cellular, internet, or desktop platforms, will provide a direct Kotlin-to-Swift import, streamlined construct setup, and simplified creation of multiplatform libraries. Plans for Kotlin Multiplatform additionally embody driving the iOS goal to a secure launch.