Hi folks! I've been using Kotlin as my main langua...

# getting-started

[Jefferson Lima]

Hi folks! I've been using Kotlin as my main language at work for a while now and I really enjoy it, so I wanted to get more involved in the community and learn more about it. I wanted to play around with the source code, mostly out of curiosity for now, but hopefully to contribute somehow in the future. So I am looking for resources that would help me give the first steps. More specifically, I would like to understand how to:
1. Checkout the code
2. Importing it into Intellij
3. Understand its high level structure
4. Build it
5. Make a simple change
6. Run the tests
I'm not sure if this this the right channel, but the name sounded appropriate. Any help is welcome.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Source code of what? Kotlin itself? Kotlin compiler? Kotlin standard libraries? Kotlin coroutines? Or maybe some “random” Kotlin project on Github?

[Jefferson Lima]

I meant Kotlin itself and the standard libraries to begin with. But any starting point is welcome.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I'd start with koans to learn the language, then any number of open source libraries from Square, and only then go look at the source code of Kotlin.

[Klitos Kyriacou]

Why from Square in particular?

[Jefferson Lima]

Thanks for the advice. I'm familiar with the language. I was really looking for to taking a look under the hood.

[Stephan Schröder]

so this is the GitHub Repo of Kotlin: https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
if you don't know git yet (because step 1 indicates that): do a

git clone <https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin.git>

in your local code directory. The you should simply be able to import it in IntelliJ like any other project "File -> New -> Project from existing sources". Now that I think about it you could also do a "File -> New -> Project from Version Control" with the git-url from the clone command.

[Jefferson Lima]

Thank you Stephan. I've got this far, and faced some issues, that's why I turned to this channel. So the issues that I got were:
• Intellij doesn't resolve some of the symbols
• Running a gradlew build fails
(I can tell the exact error messages later)
So I thought there could be something that I need to do to setup the development environment first. I imagined that there could be a development or contributing guide there could help with these first steps.

[Stephan Schröder]

There are several languages used for the Kotlin project (because of the multiplatform support!?)
I'm sure this makes for a tricky setup. I've never tried to get it working myself, so I can't help you with that.