Hey, I wondered if there may be something like an annotation that can be added to a Java or Scala me...

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[Jolan Rensen [JetBrains]]

Hey, I wondered if there may be something like an annotation that can be added to a Java or Scala method to make it invisible for Kotlin but still visible for those languages.

[nfrankel]

in the end, it’s bytecode
while each language creates its own flavor
it would be very hard to tell from the bytecode from what language it’s generated

[Jolan Rensen [JetBrains]]

I actually found that

@kotlin.Deprecated(message = "", level = kotlin.DeprecationLevel.HIDDEN)
public void doSomething() {}

does seem to work! The function can still be called from Java but not from Kotlin.

[nfrankel]

pretty sneaky 👍

[Jolan Rensen [JetBrains]]

It doesn't seem to work from Scala however, which was my ultimate goal 😞

[spand]

Try submitting an issue with the feature request. Seems pretty nice to have

[Jolan Rensen [JetBrains]]

Good idea: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-47544