Are you tired of manually deploying your #Kotlin apps? What if there would be a new compiler plugin that lets you apply custom transformations to your code before compilation, making the process much smoother? Interesting, hm? 🤔 More about it in this article by @marcinmoskala. https://kt.academy/article/kotlin-compiler-plugin-announcement

Hmm, the article says:

Consider the example below. Inside

filter

, we can reference

tags

because

I could not find "the example below", What does the above refer to?

Indeed a great feature to add typing on the fly and once the new compiler is in place I can see a lot more language enhancement feature slapen coming. That being said, F# already had this feature for a long time. They call is type providers. So not sure I would call it revolutionary, but very welcome none the less.

Xtend's "active annotations" was a similar feature: https://www.eclipse.org/xtend/documentation/204_activeannotations.html And it was very powerful, too. (Unfortunately - in my opinion - the Xtend team did not have the resources to create a production-ready compiler and related tools.)

@Oliver.O I think the article refers to the slide shown during the KotinConf Keynote: https://www.youtube.com/live/c4f4SCEYA5Q?feature=share&t=1462

@Patrick Schlindwein Thank you for pointing that out and investing the time to locate the exact slide in the keynote! @marcinmoskala You might want to add that slide's content to your article, so that the reference to an "example below" makes sense.