Dear all, what is the canonical way to install `kotlin` on Windows (w/o IntelliJ)?

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[Peter]

Dear all, what is the canonical way to install kotlin on Windows (w/o IntelliJ)?

[Gleb Minaev]

What about installing Gradle and applying Kotlin plugin? You can use Gradle to build your project and any text editor (even Notepad) to edit your code.

[Gleb Minaev]

Actually, build systems are made just to simplify installing and usage of programming tools (including compilers and dependencies). And they are IDE agnostic.

[Peter]

I want the pure experience 😉 Anyway. Thank you for your input

[Adam S]

it’s not ‘canonical’, but Scoop is nice

https://scoop.sh/#/apps?q=kotlin&s=0&d=1&o=false&id=4582ca39cd45192d4dba2deb161323e6967de057

[Goetz Markgraf]

You can also use sdkman.io.
But I would not do this. Create a gradle or maven-project and declare kotlin in there.

[Peter]

I'm on Windows; so no sdkman for me; but that would be my preferred solution/way to go, TBH

[Peter]

If I rely on maven, I would also need to install the exec plug-in...

[Gleb Minaev]

@Peter

I'm on Windows; so no sdkman for me; but that would be my preferred solution/way to go, TBH

Actually, second paragraph on SDKMAN! installation page is about installation on Windows (via either WSL, Cygwin, or Git Bash, yeah, but still). If I was you, I would try WSL.

[Peter]

yes, there are ways to shoehorn sdkman "into" Windows...might check out WSL, though

[Peter]

🙏 for your suggestions