This is the second part of the roadmap of IntelliJ IDEA and IntelliJ-based IDEs for 2020. The first part of the roadmap was focused mostly on low-level features in the platform. In this post we’ll be talking about higher-level features, ones that the users will directly interact with. Some of these features will roll out in 2020.1, and others will appear in releases later during the year. Localization Last year, we localized the JetBrains Website and made it available in 8 different languages. Now we’re happy to announce that we’re working on localizing IntelliJ-based IDEs. We’re working on

We’d like to unveil some of our current efforts to improve IntelliJ IDEA and the other IDEs based on the IntelliJ Platform. The results of these efforts are going to be released over the next year, some as soon as in the 2020.1 release in the spring. They are centered around two main themes: performance and support for modern development workflows. Performance Indexing Performance Two of the main pain points related to the performance of our IDEs are startup performance (a tool that takes a long time to start is perceived as heavyweight) and indexing speed. We did a lot to speed up startup

Over the years, IntelliJ IDEA has accumulated support for a large array of technologies, and many of the technologies are no longer being actively maintained. We know that there are still people using these technologies, and up until now, we’ve been maintaining the plugins for them as part of the main IntelliJ IDEA source repository. However, our project has been growing, and carrying around this excess baggage is getting more and more difficult both for our users (as the plugins affect the size of the installation and potentially the performance of the IDE) and for our development team. At th

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.2.20, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.2. This update: Adds support for Gradle build cache Improves incremental compilation for Android and mixed Kotlin/Java projects Provides IDE support for the new Kotlin style guide Adds inlay hints in the editor for implicit parameters and receivers of lambdas, as well as values returned from lambdas Supports development mode in JavaScript DCE Gradle task Introduces new inspections, performance improvements and bug fixes in the IntelliJ plugin The update is compatible with all versions of Inte

Members of our community have translated this blog post into several languages: Today we're releasing Kotlin 1.2. This is a major new release and a big step on our road towards enabling the use of Kotlin across all components of a modern application. In Kotlin 1.1, we officially released the JavaScript target, allowing you to compile Kotlin code to JS and to run it in your browser. In Kotlin 1.2, we're adding the possibility to reuse code between the JVM and JavaScript. Now you can write the business logic of your application once, and reuse it across all tiers of your application - the b

We're happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.60, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update: Adds experimental support for Kotlin/JS incremental compilation Adds new features to JSR-305 custom nullability annotations support Brings a lot of bug fixes in the automatic Parcelable implementation generator and provides it with IDE support Improves Gradle incremental builds Introduces new inspections, performance improvements and bug fixes in the IntelliJ plugin The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2016.3 until 2017.3, as well as with Android St

Today is a great day for the Kotlin community. KotlinConf, the inaugural Kotlin conference, opens today, and we're really impressed that around 1200 attendees from all over the world have joined us in San Francisco. During the conference keynote, Andrey Breslav, the lead designer of Kotlin, has announced a few major developments around Kotlin, and now we're sharing the news with everyone else. Kotlin 1.2 RC The first major announcement from the keynote is the release of Kotlin 1.2 Release Candidate. The new features in this release include the experimental support for multiplatform projects,

We’re happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.50, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update: Introduces a new versioning scheme: 1.1.5x instead of 1.1.5-x Improves support for JSR-305 annotations (nullability problems can be reported as warnings, checks work when JSR-305 classes are not on the classpath) Improves generated bytecode performance Enables primitive array to TypedArray translation, adds source maps support to the dead code elimination tool and makes other improvements for the JS backend Fixes lots of bugs in the compiler and IDE Introduces new inspections, p

We're happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.4, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. This update: Fixes a major performance regression in the IntelliJ IDEA plugin Adds support for package-default nullability annotations Improves Java 9 support Adds initial, experimental support for generating Android Parcelable implementations using the @Parcelize annotation Adds a tool for JavaScript dead code elimination, improves sourcemap support for JS debugging and JS unit testing support Generates more efficient bytecode Adds many new features to the IntelliJ IDEA plugin The update i

We're happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.3, a new bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. The update brings a number of new IDE features, performance improvements in the compiler and IDE, efficiency improvements for generated bytecode, and lots of bugfixes. The update is compatible with all versions of IntelliJ IDEA from 2016.2 until 2017.2, as well as with Android Studio 2.3 and 3.0 Canary. Note: There is an issue with Android Studio 3.0 Canary 4 which prevents correct loading of Kotlin plugin updates, so you won't be able to install this update into Canary 4. Kotlin 1.1.3 will be

We're happy to announce the release of Kotlin 1.1.2, the second bugfix and tooling update for Kotlin 1.1. The update brings performance improvements to the compiler and the IntelliJ IDEA plugin, several new features in the tools, and lots of bugfixes in all areas. Kotlin 1.1.2 also brings compatibility with version 2.4.0-alpha of the Android Gradle plugin. The complete list of changes in this release can be found in the changelog. We’d like to thank our external contributors whose pull requests were included in this release: Yoshinori Isogai, Jonathan Leitschuh and Kirill Rakhman. Thanks

With Kotlin 1.1, targeting JavaScript in the Kotlin compiler has officially reached production-ready status. Of course, having compiler support is not enough to be able to solve real-life problems, so we continue our work on integrating Kotlin into the larger JavaScript ecosystem. Today, we'd like to present two new projects: a Gradle plugin integrating Kotlin with npm, webpack and karma, and a full-stack application sample with a Kotlin/JVM backend and a Kotlin/JS frontend built with React. Kotlin Frontend Plugin The Kotlin frontend plugin allows you to build and deploy a Kotlin frontend a