JetBrains has introduced the discharge of Kotlin 1.9. This launch introduces many enhancements, an enormous one being the beta launch of the K2 compiler for the JVM.
The K2 compiler is a brand new frontend compiler that’s deliberate to be launched in Kotlin 2.0 as secure. It’s a full rewrite of the unique compiler and provides a sooner and extra extensible structure, addresses technical debt from the outdated compiler, fixes bugs, and lays the muse for future language extensions.
JetBrains plans to make K2 suitable with different compiler plugins in order that it might probably ship multiplatform performance.
“Our goal is to attain full beta-quality assist for multiplatform tasks in K2 concurrently with the secure launch of Kotlin Multiplatform,” Sarah Haggarty, Kotlin technical author at JetBrains, wrote in a weblog publish.
As well as, a variety of beforehand launched options have reached the secure designation on this launch. These embody the alternative of the enum class values operate and the ..< operator for open-ended ranges.
New options have additionally been launched, equivalent to a new extension operate for creating father or mother directories and a brand new operate for retrieving the contents of a regex group by title.
Different additions in Kotlin 1.9 embody a preview of a customized reminiscence allocator, library linkage, a preview of the Gradle configuration cache in Kotlin Multiplatform, and modifications for Android goal assist in Kotlin Multiplatform.
Extra info is accessible within the weblog publish.
