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Hi there folks, do you have any idea if <https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/projects/KTIJ/issues/KTIJ-29248> (supporting FIR plugins in the IDE) is likely to happen, even in a limited form, anytime soon?  Or is it something that is still quite a ways off?

Well, IntelliJ often uses (special) dev releases directly from the main branch, like 2.4.0 in 2026.1 EAP, so as a plugin author, you need to update your plugin very often/fast, while also maintaining support for other IDEA versions. If the feature will be enabled by default, the FIR api should be more stable to reduce the work for plugin authors.
Or introduce a mechanism (like Gradle attributes) to select a different version of the plugin for IDEA only. 

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-82617/DevKit-for-Kotlin-compiler-plugins|https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-82617/DevKit-for-Kotlin-compiler-plugins>

Yeah, that's why it's tied to introducing a stable API, or at least a subset of one.  But even if it's a very small subset to start with, and/or one that we know will get thrown away at some later date, but is stable for now, it could be quite useful