| # Kotlin Bazel Roadmap |
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| This document describes the major release milestones for the Kotlin Bazel Rules. |
| There are three major pillars that we are focused on when developing the Kotlin |
| rules - **Performance**, **Features**, and **Developer Experience** - and for |
| each milestone we list the main items for each pillar. Progress on each item is |
| tracked via an issue. |
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| If you have feedback on this roadmap (including feature and reprioritization |
| requests) please open an issue or comment on the existing one. |
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| ## Kotlin 1.3 (est. mid 2019) |
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| The existing Kotlin rules only support up to version 1.2. The primary goal of |
| this release is to bring preliminary 1.3 support to Bazel. We will seek to |
| provide a migration path for users of the existing rules, with the intention of |
| 1.3 eventually becoming the master branch. This includes documenting the |
| differences between the rulesets, and providing migration tooling and support. |
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| ### Performance |
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| * Compilation avoidance for non-structural changes to dependencies |
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| ### Features |
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| * Support android_instrumentation_test on Linux and macOS |
| * Support building and testing on Google Cloud Platform Remote Build Execution |
| * Support for ktlint |
| * Simplified package and dependency management |
| * Improve Android interoperability |
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| ### Developer Experience |
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| * Document major differences between the rulesets |
| * Documentation for Kotlin with Bazel compatibility across Windows, macOS, |
| Linux |
| * Stable and reliable CI |
| * Sample projects |
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| ## XPlat (est. late 2019) |
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| The goal for the XPlat release is to provide a stable cross-platform (XPlat) |
| experience for developers. We intend to provide first class Kotlin/Native |
| support for Android and iOS, and collaborate with the community to add |
| additional target platforms. We also plan to deliver performance improvements |
| for build speed and binary size. |
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| ### Performance |
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| * Implement persistent workers for faster compilation |
| * Reduce output binary sizes |
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| ### Features |
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| * Stable Kotlin/Native support for Android and iOS |
| * Support `bazel coverage` for all test rules |
| * Support for Android Lint |
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| ### Developer Experience |
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| * Documentation and guides for writing a cross platform app |
