groovy VS ksp

This time, I visited Groovy. Given my biased first impression about Java and the JVM, I wasn't too exited! But I couldn't have been more wrong! 😁

The default programming language is Kotlin instead of Java. Also, Build configuration language is nowadays Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) instead of Groovy DSL (build.gradle), the past default.

There are languages that are more like "script versions of java", lately including java itself - you can run simple .java stuff directly with a shebang line now - but things like Beanshell of yore and Groovy are far more java-like than javascript.

Install Groovy: To use Groovy, you'll need to first install it. You can find the installation instructions on the Groovy website (https://groovy-lang.org/)

On https://groovy-lang.org a lot of big companies are listed which use(d) Groovy. Is this still current? E.g. Netflix, ...

Groovylang

Hence, Groovy

If you want the power of JAVA but the feel of PYTHON, try Groovy (https://groovy-lang.org/) . Basically a scripting lang for JVM but can be dynamically/statically compiled and is 100% compatible with all JAVA libs but looks like Python

Doesn't Groovy (https://groovy-lang.org) achieve much of this? I remember being taught with it at university for some time before they introduced Java. With Groovy you don't need the class or main method, and can have a program which is just `println "Hello world!"`.

google/ksp is one of the lightweight compiler plugin. We can easy to create compiler plugin with simple syntax. It's set as stable last year.

google/ksp is one of the lightweight compiler plugin which is developed by google. Some jetpack libraries are supporting that configures with ksp (ex: room).

Some guys consider it as a bug.https://github.com/google/ksp/issues/969

Links: GitHub Repo : https://github.com/aniketbhoite/ksp-my-event Google KSP Doc: https://github.com/google/ksp KotlinLang KSP Doc: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/ksp-overview.html

If you ever come back to it, check out https://github.com/google/ksp, it's relatively new but I think it might be a great fit for the project.

Fyi ksp handles tracking this for incremental builds, you may be able to see what they are doing?

I'd like to further iterate on all these patterns in some form of codegen library in the future, as compiler plugins start to mature. I'm hopeful for a multiplatform version of Kotlin Symbol Processing to help with this, though this won't be possible before Kotlin 1.5.20 at the earliest due to missing extension points in the Kotlin compiler. Fingers crossed for something this summer I guess.

Well, KSP is developed by Google, so you should ask them for more documentation, I think :) For compiler plugins -- yes, JetBrains should at some point invest some time and create at least the basic documentation for compiler plugin authors. But first of all, we need to create the public compiler API itself. We are going to do that after releasing the JS IR back-end.