Does Compose use KSP?
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spierce7
03/02/2021, 6:20 AMDoes Compose use KSP?
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
03/02/2021, 4:43 PMCompose uses a compiler plugin. KSP is built on the same compiler plugin infrastructure that Compose uses, but they are completely independent.
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yigit
03/02/2021, 4:45 PMalso, compose cannot use KSP because it modifies your code while KSP can only generate additional code
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Zach Klippenstein (he/him) [MOD]
03/02/2021, 4:55 PMYep, and in general, I think the philosophy of KSP is to provide a more limited, but simpler and arguably easier to learn, API, that targets the same set of use cases as annotation processors used to.
Full-fledged compiler plugins let you do virtually anything (parcelize, kotlinx-serialization are also compiler plugins).
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