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Anyone comfortable with throwing out a hand-wavey timeline for KSP landing in the main line kotlin artifacts? even if just an opt in basis similar to how NewInference is I can make a better argument for jumping on it for a few concepts I am cooking up.

We are aiming to land in upstream before the end of 2020.

thank you, this is promising work, keep it up!

As I was thinking more about this. does it even need to be in the mainline? If it is a compiler plugin wouldn’t that mean I need only pull in a jar to the correct classpath once 1.4 ships?

I need to go actually read some code on the topic… but figured I’d ask anyway.

There are a few reasons. One is that people like and trust built-in functionalities. It's easier to maintain as well, because it'll be tested on each compiler release. There are also some compiler internal functions that are only (conveniently) available when compiled with `kotlinc`. We also need to make some changes in the compiler for features like multiple-round support.

I’d imagine the IDE and misc tooling story gets better when first party as well. and TY again!