Kotlin unveils K2 compiler

JetBrains has released Kotlin 1.7.0, an upgrade to the language for JVM, web, and mobile development that features an alpha version of the game-changing K2 compiler.

In addition to improving performance, K2 is intended to speed up development of new language features, unify platforms Kotlin supports, and provide an API for compiler extensions. The alpha version, however, only works with JVM projects. And no compiler plugins except the kapt plugin for annotation processors work with it yet.

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