🤖 3 Awesome Kotlin Feature Requests

We look beyond Kotlin 1.8 to see features that may come in 1.9 or in a 2.0 major release.

Kotlin 1.7.x And Kotlin 1.8 Status

Today I will tell you a little bit about some exciting Kotlin feature requests that may eventually become a part of the standard. But before we dive into the details, just a short update about available and upcoming releases.

Some time ago I was reporting about Kotlin 1.7.20, and now we have a 1.8 release candidate available. Just a short reminder that there is also Kotlin 1.7.21 release. But this is mostly a bug fix release for 1.7.20.

Since Kotlin 1.8 is on its way, let's check what we can expect from the next versions of Kotlin.

Beyond Kotlin 1.8

On the list of Kotlin’s feature requests debated on JetBrains' YouTrack we can find some pretty interesting solutions:

Multicatch Statements

The idea for a multicatch syntax came from Zdenek Obst 8 years ago. It should be possible in Kotlin to catch various types of errors…