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I wonder how many people out there are using (or interesting in using) Kotlin with the Akka/Lightbend platform

I for one am using it. We migrated from v2.5 to v2.6/artery a month ago w/o any trouble, but I find the docs for v2.6 overly complicated. What's your use case?

We’re pretty much a Lightbend shop (using Java, not Scala), and we’ve been evaluating a move to Kotlin

All our projects are built using sbt, and Kotlin support for sbt isn’t the best

There is <https://github.com/pfn/kotlin-plugin|kotlin-plugin>, but it’s broken for sbt 1.4+ and apparently it doesn’t correctly set classpaths for `internal` modifiers to work properly. The project seems pretty much unmaintained.

Good to know we’re not alone there; Anyway, the point is that we’re starting to consider rolling our own sbt plugin

You have seen the sbt/kotlin plugin already there, in github?

yeah, it’s what we’re using right now

I was also hoping to find other organizations out there committing to this Kotlin + Akka (including sbt, etc.) combination to make sure we’re not walking into a dead end.

I fear you are. We use sbt a little, but not with kotlin. And we use gradle a lot.

our projects are all built on <https://www.playframework.com/|Play>, and unfortunately Play _requires_ sbt.

There is also a gradle plugin to compile Play! projects, I have created a branch for it in one of our projects, but never completed it, so I cannot guarantee anything ...!

this plugin used to be unmaintained, but apparently this isn’t the case anymore? nice

Yes. I am looking forward to trying it for real, so if you succeed in making it work, please update this thread, so I will know!