I like the language, but the tooling really tries ...

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[Daniel Svensson]

I like the language, but the tooling really tries its best to fend off users 😞

[natpryce]

I avoid the early access program because I want stability more than the bleeding edge

[Daniel Svensson]

@natpryce Do you know what year JetBrains Kotlins plugin will come out of early access?

[natpryce]

There are two release channels: stable and early-access. If you are updating the plug-in from the early-access channel you’ll get development releases which can be unstable. If that’s not what you want switch to the stable channel

[Daniel Svensson]

Unfortunately just a bad joke by me, considering the kotlin plugin has been crashing every day since I started using it in december last year, and making writing code feel like swimming in honey. 😞

[Michael de Kaste]

I think this is just a perfect example of one persons bad experience doesn't necessarily leak out to others.

I've never encountered any of your problems and I feel very sorry for you, but you seem to be an outlier in this case.

[Big Chungus]

Never had such issues myself. Working with kotlin for 4 years now on both, Windows and Linux versions of IntelliJ. Smooth sailing all the way so far.

[natpryce]

I have had problems with interference from other plugins. IntelliJ doesn’t isolate plugins from each other, so one plugin can corrupt data used by another. In my case, I had to disable the Haskell plugin to get IntelliJ to run reliably.

[Big Chungus]

Try invalidating intellij indices and cache or plain reinstalling

[Daniel Svensson]

@Big Chungus Such solutions should remain as jokes in series like The IT Crowd, but you're right, it does "help" from time to time.

[Big Chungus]

turn-off-and-on along with his older brother hit-the-soul-out-of-that-tv have been fixing random issues with tech since the dawn of times 😄