Does anyone know if there’s an “official” or recommended solution for providing immutable lists to c...

# compose

[Jez]

Does anyone know if there’s an “official” or recommended solution for providing immutable lists to composables? https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.collections.immutable looks pretty unmaintained atm. I’m currently looking at just boxing lists in an @stable data class and ensuring that I’m handling the list data appropriately in my logic, but does anyone know of a solid alternative solution, ideally one that makes dealing with immutable data more efficient than copying lists around?

[Stylianos Gakis]

That is the official way to do it. What feels unmaintained to you?

[Jez]

it’s alpha, and hasn’t been updated in over a year

[Jez]

most recent open issue was created in 2019

[Jez]

if it wasn’t for the github account I’d assume it was dead.

[Jez]

“is this project dead?” https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.collections.immutable/issues/95

[Jez]

2 years ago “no, thinking about 1.0 release”

[curioustechizen]

Do note that the Compose source code uses kotlinx.collections.immutable under the hood.

[Chrimaeon]

As long as Multiplattform is not final, all dependent libraries cannot be final.

[curioustechizen]

And to be fair, the sentence before the "thinking about 1.0 release" also says a lot:

No. Its implementations are more or less stable, reported bugs and improvements (e.g.: #94, #90, #98) are fixed on a regular basis.

[Chrimaeon]

Also there are some open “questions” related to the api in here https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx.collections.immutable/blob/master/proposal.md

[Jez]

hmm, ok, thanks for the other perspectives.