Kotlin code intelligence

[beyang]

Support the Kotlin language on Sourcegraph.

[keegancsmith]

Link to a tweet of another user asking for Kotlin https://twitter.com/erluxman/status/910790116091740160

[emidoots]

Another user here asking for Kotlin support :) sourcegraph/java-langserver-docs#1

[keegancsmith]

In another thread talking about popularity of Kotlin, there was this response which I think is food for thought w.r.t. trying to quantify the popularity:

I'm not sure we have great data on that, actually. Most server-side JVM work is closed-source so GitHub isn't a good indicator. I suspect there are lots of companies like mine that introduced Kotlin to a Java code base but if forced to choose a single option in a "which language is your server written in?" survey would still pick Java.

[nicksnyder]

Sourcegraph is happy to sponsor someone working on a Kotlin (or any other) language server. Please let us know if you are interested!

The best measure of “is there enough demand for a language server” is “is the community or a company in the community already working on one”. We are happy to help and lend our expertise about building language servers when that time comes.

[joaoqalves]

@nicksnyder Is it possible to plug in this LSP?

[nicksnyder]

Any LSP server can be plugged in to Sourcegraph using lsp-adapter. Feel free to open a pull request there!

We have plans to make it even easier to add language support via Sourcegraph extensions in the future.

@sqs @felixfbecker @chrismwendt can you post a plan to https://github.com/sourcegraph/about ?

[sqs]

We are releasing a big improvement to how lang support is added to Sourcegraph in under 2 weeks (see "Language support via Sourcegraph extensions", more info coming soon, at https://docs.sourcegraph.com/dev/roadmap#october-2018). After that, we will post back here with guidance on using the lang server you linked (https://github.com/fwcd/KotlinLanguageServer) with Sourcegraph.