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This also means that JetBrains will never write a language server for Kotlin, locking you into their ecosystem.


It doesn't lock you into their ecosystem given that other people can (and have) written language servers for Kotlin.


Which are not nearly as capable and will forever be catching up. For a better situation look at Apple’s sourcekit. I’d take kotlin over swift in less than a heartbeat if it was more open source than Swift. Which us a very low order.





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