Hey so, does anybody else intentionally leave compiler errors on their branches while they're working so that when they come back to their work they'll have a tool telling them explicitly what they were working on? Is there a kotlin language feature that will let me do this? I figured some kind of use-anywhere style annotation might be more elegant. something like

@CompilerFailure("my custom message")

leave in errors on branches?

I guess, something like C preprocessor's #error

Why not just write what you should do? that will most likely result in a compile error as well.

You can just mark unfinished parts of code with TODO https://kotlinlang.org/api/latest/jvm/stdlib/kotlin/-t-o-d-o.html It is also supported in IJ Idea https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/todo-tool-window.html

Yup,

TODO("My custom message")

is what I use most of the time

a failing test or a test with

@Disabled

annotation

all of these suggestions are runtime errors, meaning I actually have to run something to encounter these messages. I want to hit the play button in intelliJ and, without any of my code running, have a message that tells me what to do

when i hit the play button in idea it runs the test suite so my failing test will fail

TODO's give you a list you can access and jump to in Intellij. It will also warn you if you try to commit TODO's. It's not quite what you want since it does let you compile the code