Is Compose only working on specific Kotlin version...

# compose

[Marcin Wisniowski]

Is Compose only working on specific Kotlin versions? I cannot seem to update past Kotlin 1.6.10, because then Compose complains.

[jw]

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/releases/compose-kotlin

[jw]

https://androidx.dev/storage/compose-compiler/repository

[Marcin Wisniowski]

I see, thank you. Is that going to be decoupled at some point?

[jw]

In 2-4 years, yes.

[Landry Norris]

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?

[jw]

that would be great. but i'll believe it when i see it.

[jw]

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

[Landry Norris]

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.

[jw]

totally. also software engineers are really bad at timelines!

[Marcin Wisniowski]

Even when the timelines take that into account.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Chuck Norris is on the stable compile APIs since 2021

[romainguy]

Related: https://twitter.com/JimSproch/status/1527318661177823234

[Marcin Wisniowski]

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.

[james]

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?)