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Kotlin in Action: Extra tools?

 
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Java is more then the compiler, the interactive shell and the main executable, for instance there is also javap.
I suspect that Kotlin is more then just the compiler and the main executable as well.
Given that, does the book go into using some of the extra tools which are shipped with Kotlin?
 
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Actually Kotlin is not shipped with any extra command-line tools other than kotlinc, which is the command-line compiler and can also be used to execute scripts and to run an interactive interpreter.

The main focus of the book is the language, not the tools. The book gives a couple of simple examples of using kotlinc and integrating Kotlin with build systems such as Maven or Gradle, but it does not provide a complete reference for the tools.
 
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Dmitry Jemerov wrote:Actually Kotlin is not shipped with any extra command-line tools other than kotlinc, which is the command-line compiler and can also be used to execute scripts and to run an interactive interpreter.


Thank you. I obsessively have a lot to learn with regards to Kotlin.

Dmitry Jemerov wrote:The main focus of the book is the language, not the tools. The book gives a couple of simple examples of using kotlinc and integrating Kotlin with build systems such as Maven or Gradle, but it does not provide a complete reference for the tools.


Everything you say makes this book sound even better and better.

Thank you very much,
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Pete Letkeman wrote:Java is more then the compiler, the interactive shell and the main executable, for instance there is also javap.
I suspect that Kotlin is more then just the compiler and the main executable as well.
Given that, does the book go into using some of the extra tools which are shipped with Kotlin?



Because JetBrains is the brain behind Kotlin Language, I believe it should have added
A lot of tooling features in IntelliJ IDE.

Warm Regards
Sathya
 
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Interesting the Kotlin compiler is also the Kotlin interactive shell which is kind of like Java 9's jshell which is an interactive shell.

You can read about this here http://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/command-line.html
 
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