inline class can be declared as `inline class` and `value class`. why do both declarations exist? wi...

# announcements

[Marko Novakovic]

inline class can be declared as inline class and value class. why do both declarations exist? will one of them be dropped in stable release?

[Albert Chang]

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2021/02/new-language-features-preview-in-kotlin-1-4-30

You define a value class with one constructor parameter and annotate it with @JvmInline. We expect everyone to use this new syntax starting from Kotlin 1.5. The old syntax inline class will continue to work for some time. It will be deprecated with a warning in 1.5 that will include an option to migrate all your declarations automatically. It will later be deprecated with an error.

[Marko Novakovic]

@Albert Chang thanks

[Jonathan Olsson]

A bit confusing that the blog post is started with an introduction to inline classes using the about to be deprecated syntax... 😅