Is there any reason why there isn’t a special plugin for AS 3.5 Canary. I find that in 3.5, latest p...

# intellij

[efemoney]

Is there any reason why there isn’t a special plugin for AS 3.5 Canary. I find that in 3.5, latest plugin updates show only the 3.4 version of the plugin. Also, I use the plugins just like that cos I prefer 3.5 Canary to 3.4 Beta, should I be careful that I will run into potential issues? Finally, can someone please summarise to me why there must be different versions of the intelliJ plugin for different IntelliJ/AS versions. Thanks 🙏

[gildor]

can someone please summarise to me why there must be different versions of the intelliJ plugin for different IntelliJ/AS versions

Because IntelliJ platform doesn’t provide some sort of strict backward compatible API for Plugins across different platform versions, so plugins often not compatible between different versions of IntelliJ (which is also thing with AS 3.3 and 3.4, they based on different version of Intellij)

[efemoney]

Thanks @gildor, I understand that to an extent. How do you mean string backward compatible API? I understand backward compatibility but I dont know what string backwards compatibility means

[efemoney]

Also, I’m guessing 3.4 Beta and 3.5 Canary are based on the same IntelliJ version then so its okay to use the 3.4 plugin in 3.5?

[efemoney]

I just checked and it seems so. both based on some version of IntelliJ 183.5429.xx.xx.

[gildor]

sorry, I meant “strict backward compatibility”

[gildor]

Not sure that 3.4 and 3.5 have the same version of the platform, but it may be.
Anyway, I don’t have issues with Kotlin Plugin on 3.5

[efemoney]

Gotcha! Thanks. I also don’t have any issues. Mostly just curious