Does anyone from the compose team know if the new k2 compiler is supported? https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2022/08/kotlin-1-7-20-beta/

Isn't compose a backend plugin?

This may be a stupid question, but why would Compose be a backend plugin? Doesn’t it just generate cache boxes, generate if statements for recomposition, and tie together composable functions? Why would it need to interact with raw JVM bytecode/LLVM bitcode?

I'm referring to backend IR. The representation just before platform specific byte code.

Interesting. I thought Frontend was text -> IR and backend was IR -> bytecode

It's text -> FIR -> IR -> bytecode.

Interesting.

Interesting. I thought Frontend was text -> IR and backend was IR -> bytecode

You are mostly right, but frontend plugins operate on FIR while it gets created (and before it is converted to IR) and backend plugins operate on IR, before optimization passes and bytecode transforms

What does compose use FIR for?