Hi! <ktlint> is great. We tried to use it for som...

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[yasyd]

Hi! ktlint is great. We tried to use it for something crazy, and I think we succeeded. Take a look at kotlin2dart , a Kotlin to Dart transpiler built as a set of rules for the ktlint engine. Contributors are welcome!

[hfhbd]

Fascinating idea to reuse the ktlint engine! I write a transpiler too, but Cobol to Kotlin. I am very curious about how "good" the ktlint engine is and why you chose ktlint instead ksp or even detekt.

[yasyd]

I evaluated ksp and detekt. Detekt is similar to ktlint. My impression was that ktlint had a simpler design and was better documented. Ksp is higher level, I preferred a tool where I could work with lower level AST for kotlin code. I think it actually worked well. It is still a work in progress, but it is already very useful. I am using it daily for my work.

[akuleshov7]

Yep, we also used ktlint as a framework in diktat: https://github.com/saveourtool/diktat/. But now are thinking that it could have been a mistake, detekt can help more with it’s complex analysis

[akuleshov7]

A huge dislike goes to you for the BSD license: you are taking MIT ktlint framework and do a licensing with BSD… Also - why did you copy ktlint modules to your project - why not use it as dependencies?

[yasyd]

@akuleshov7 you are right i will change the license back to MIT.
i modified the ktlint engine code. i could not just link the original modules.

[Matteo Mirk]

@akuleshov7 I started a side project for a library at work, I remembered seeing this tool here and will try to integrate it instead of ktlint+detekt. Will let you know how it goes!