What is the relation between: - <https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.atomi...

# getting-started

[Norbi]

What is the relation between:
• https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.jetbrains.kotlin.plugin.atomicfu and
• https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-atomicfu/tree/master/atomicfu-gradle-plugin ?
Thanks.

[Adam S]

It's indeed confusing. Does the description in this issue help? https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-atomicfu/issues/410

[Norbi]

Thanks for the link.
The main thing I don't understand why are there two separate atomicfu Gradle plugins? (The plugins I linked in my question.)

[Adam S]

ah it was this issue I was thinking of https://github.com/Kotlin/kotlinx-atomicfu/issues/370

Basically, Atomicfu needs to transform code. There are two ways: bytecode manipulation, and via a compiler plugin. And for unclear reasons this resulted in two Gradle plugins.

[Norbi]

This helps a lot, thanks 🙂