hi all! wondering if there’s a roadmap document an...

# compose-desktop

[abbic]

hi all! wondering if there’s a roadmap document anywhere?

[Panu]

Maybe this: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/roadmap.html

[abbic]

makes no mention of compose that i can tell :x

[Panu]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5BwfqBpiWU&feature=youtu.be&t=1324▾

[abbic]

@Panu that is about android compose, im wondering about desktop compose specifically

[jim]

For Desktop, I don't think we have a pubilc roadmap, but we do have a bug tracker (https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/issues), and create bugs for most of the things we're working on.

[abbic]

i see! this question is a bit in the abstract, but do you think desktop compose is stable enough that one might begin attempting to bind it to an existing kotlin ui library?

[jim]

What you mean by "bind it to an existing kotlin ui library?"

[jim]

Compose Desktop already has bindings for Swing. Do you mean an interoperability story in addition to swing?

[abbic]

fair question, i’m a little new to desktop kotlin so this statement may be outright refutable or incomprehensible. i think i might be asking if swing binding is stable?

[abbic]

i’ll be sure to do some more research myself before asking further questions though

[jim]

The swing interoperability is reasonably good and probably relatively stable, and because Compose is now in Beta it means the common APIs are all stable. Some of the desktop-only APIs might change a bit, but I wouldn't worry about it much, as that should be a tiny percentage of your application code. But it is still an early-stage project. I think the best I can say is that you should play with it and decide for yourself if it meets your needs.

[abbic]

fantastic, that’s the plan! thank you

[olonho]

We do not publish an official roadmap, however general plan is to stabilize during this year.