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