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I feel the non-JVM targets are a real distraction from what is a lovely language. I’d rather they focussed more on fixing the issues with kotlin in IntelliJ - you’d think controlling both the language and the IDE would result in a less buggy experience than the current situation.

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I agree, to me it feels just like JetBrains turned Borland just before the Inprise Corporation makeover.

Could you elaborate on specific issues you have with Kotlin/IntelliJ? I use both as my daily work environment and I barely have issues.

It frequently loses track of libraries, claiming large chunks of the codebase won’t compile until caches are cleared and it is restarted.

It gets stuck indexing forever, losing all code completion and navigation abilities until it’s restarted.

Git integration sometimes stops working. It will list the files to be committed but does nothing when you click commit, until it’s restarted.

Exiting presentation mode leaves the font set to a huge size (until it’s restarted).

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