ksp VS kotlinx.coroutines

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.

Now, let's consider an example. For instance, let's create a Kotlin/JVM project with kotlinx.coroutines library as a dependency.

Greetings community, I just submited a PR to Kotlin coroutines with two additional operators :

The harder parts of Kotlin are going to be things like kotlinx.coroutines, but that's just a library, not a core part of the language. It's about as hard to learn as a comparable library in another language, like the Task Parallel Library in .NET.

Kotlin has coroutines that are supported by the language and implemented by a library (the implementation remains platform-dependent): kotlinx.coroutines and a sandbox environment is available here to try it out.

That said, since it seems like you're doing UI stuff (Android?), you're best off doing all of the UI code in coroutines, using Dispatchers.Main as a context (as provided by one of the platform-specific coroutine libraries), since this will guarantee that your UI code will be safely run in the UI thread.