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Marcin Wisniowski

05/23/2022, 7:44 PM
Is Compose only working on specific Kotlin versions? I cannot seem to update past Kotlin 1.6.10, because then Compose complains.
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Marcin Wisniowski

05/23/2022, 7:52 PM
I see, thank you. Is that going to be decoupled at some point?
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jw

05/23/2022, 7:53 PM
In 2-4 years, yes.
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Landry Norris

05/23/2022, 7:56 PM
I thought it was just until the compiler SDK is stabilized. Isn’t 1.7 supposed to start this process, with completion planned for 1.8 in about 6 months or so or 1.9 in about a year?
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jw

05/23/2022, 7:56 PM
that would be great. but i'll believe it when i see it.
so far the quotes on the JVM IR backend and FIR have been/are being delivered at around 2x their quoted timeline, so 2-4 years instead of 1-1.5 seems like the real timeline
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Landry Norris

05/23/2022, 8:00 PM
That’s fair. I would imagine the more recent delays are mostly due to the Russia office closing, but there were still some delays before.
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jw

05/23/2022, 8:01 PM
totally. also software engineers are really bad at timelines!
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Marcin Wisniowski

05/23/2022, 8:01 PM
Even when the timelines take that into account.
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Kirill Grouchnikov

05/23/2022, 8:02 PM
Chuck Norris is on the stable compile APIs since 2021
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romainguy

05/23/2022, 8:57 PM
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Marcin Wisniowski

05/23/2022, 9:30 PM
Ah, that is helpful to know. I am trying to debug a weird issue in my app that arises when updating Compose + Kotlin. I was trying to update one or the other separately to figure out if the problem is triggered with the newer version of Compose or of Kotlin, but couldn't. I will try just Kotlin + Compose Compiler.
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james

05/23/2022, 10:42 PM
wow, @romainguy has it always been true that the Compose compiler is backwards compatible with previous versions of the other Compose dependencies? that’s a great candidate to go into the official documentation (I don’t think it’s there?)