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What's the status of the compiler plugin? Is it being maintained / kept up to date with the latest alphas? I tried it with an earlier alpha, but it was having issues with my newer version of Kotlin.

It is not being maintained afaik. There are conversations about if we should remove it or not. But there is not a decision yet.

Was there ever any indication that it would be faster than running Detekt separately?

I never used but it should be faster for sure. But not it is not the case anymore, I think, becasue we use Analysis API and the compiler doesn't so we get very little. Just the parsed KtFiles, but that's really fast.

I never liked the compile plugin idea because, in general, I don't want to run detekt every time I compile. I want to compile a lot of code that I will never commit. I don't care about static analysis while I'm "hacking around". To me that was a big no for the compiler plugin.