is it a good idea to use `CharSequence` for text type Is it kotlinlang #compose

is it a good idea to use `CharSequence` for text t...

Peter

02/27/2026, 4:18 PM

is it a good idea to use

CharSequence

for text type? Is it stable?

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@Composable
fun Foo(text: CharSequence)

02/27/2026, 4:39 PM

No. `CharSequence`s can be mutable (e.g.,

StringBuilder

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Halil Ozercan

02/27/2026, 9:55 PM

Why do you want to use

CharSequence

Peter

02/28/2026, 8:04 AM

Just felt a bit annoyed by the need to have two function overloads for

String

and

AnnotatedText

. So I was wondering if the

CharSequence

would work if I do type-check in the implementation.

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