I have a project which I want to update from Kotli...
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Sohel
09/19/2024, 5:07 AMI have a project which I want to update from Kotlin 1.6.20 to 1.9.24. Can I assume kotlin to be backwards compatible and it won't break the libraries? If library is compiled with older version of Kotlin will it still continue to work?
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Carsten
09/19/2024, 5:12 AMNo, you shouldn't assume that. You should test it.
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Sohel
09/19/2024, 5:24 AMGot it, testing makes sense but are they supposed to work together?
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Anselmo Alexandre
09/19/2024, 7:25 AMIt should be backwards compatible YES. Also, unless you have very specific requirement to update to 1.9.24, I would recommend updating to at least Kotlin 2.0.0 (which bundles lots of great updates including K2 compiler).
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Sohel
09/19/2024, 8:18 AMI remember reading it somewhere that 2.0 is not completely backwards compatible. Can update to 2.0 with same requirements - being able to use libraries compiled with older version of kotlin.
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