(for me) this road-map looks like my personal wish...

# kotlin-roadmap

[audriusk]

(for me) this road-map looks like my personal wishlist 😄
Almost...
• Direct interoperability with Swift Would like to see this. But it's understandable why postponed. Probably very big task which focus on very narrow use-cases and doesn't fit in whole new IR backend theme.
• KMM plugin: support for IntelliJ IDEA But this... I don't get it. If goal is to build multi-platform applications. Then developers from other platforms (not android devs) will have to join. And these backend/web devs uses Intellij IDEA, not Android Studio...

[akapanina]

Hi! Thanks for the feedback! As for the first point - yes, you understand it right, we’re just short of resources, especially since the the same team has to implement new Garbage Collector.
As for the second point - well, that’s a long story 🙂 When we’ve just started polishing scenarios for Mobile Multiplatform developers a year ago, our main goal was to reduce number of IDEs you need to run at the same time - and we supposed that every mobile developer has to use Android Studio one way or another. Hence, extensive Multiplatform support for iOS targets should have fitted well there, not in IDEA. Since then our understanding of our users has changed. A lot. And right now we’re considering having a feature parity between IDEA and AS - we just won’t rush to implement it before we check a couple of other things about users’ needs and before we polish code we already have for AS 🙂

I also would like to stress here, that in both of these cases “postponed” does not mean “postponed for a long-long-long time” or “won’t do it”. It means “we were really eager to take it into work as soon as possible, but we just could not yet, stay tuned, this is the next place we’ll go”.