what is the future of annotation processing in kot...

# language-proposals

[dimsuz]

what is the future of annotation processing in kotlin? will it be still as slow and use Java as an intermediate generation language? Will it be possible to generate kotlin directly somehow?
Or will there be other machineries to allow some kind of metaprogramming?

Maybe there are already some proposals related to this?

[louiscad]

dimsuz: Your message is not a language proposal, but did you hear of KotlinPoet by the guys at Square?

[dimsuz]

yes, I know about its existence, but I asked mainly about compiler-level support for code generation (which theoretically could use KotlinPoet further down the line...)

[kirillrakhman]

I believe generating kotlin is on the horizon, @yan might know more