Many of you want to know about Kotlin’s future and what lies ahead. We often talk about the upcoming new compiler, focus on tooling quality and performance, and server-side and KMM experience, but the talks usually don’t give the full picture.

If you want to stay up to date and follow all of the team’s plans, review the Kotlin public roadmap. We’ve just updated it to reflect our plans for 2021 and beyond! This update covers how the language, tooling, and ecosystem will evolve in the upcoming year. You can choose whether to explore the updated roadmap yourself or check out nine notable highlights in this blog post.

• The new compiler takes a big step forward
• Sealed whens
• Placing a bet on the WebAssembly
• New Kotlin/Native garbage collector on the road to experimental
• Improving iOS-related tooling in KMM
• Support for the Apple Silicon target in the Kotlin Multiplatform tooling
• New ways to improve IDE performance and stability
• New core libraries features
• Community assets with the new style

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