Unblockt

Kotlin Language Support for Visual Studio Code

This project is no longer maintained. There is now an official Kotlin Language Server available.

Note: This extension is in its early stages and does not yet support all build systems or Kotlin features. It may also be unstable — please report any issues or unexpected behavior you experience. For more details, see the limitations section.

Basics

• Memory Widget: A widget in the bottom right corner displays current memory usage.
  
• Unblockt Actions: Click the widget to access a list of actions.

Requirements

• Java
• Memory: Minimum 4GB, 8GB recommended

Settings

• Memory: Configure the language server's heap size (in MB). Restart required.
  

Features

• Semantic Highlighting
  
• Code Completion
  
• Go to Definition
  

Actions

• Reload Gradle Project: Updates project structure from Gradle and applies changes.
• Rebuild Indexes: Clears and rebuilds project indexes.

Limitations

• Only Gradle projects are supported.
• Only default source code locations are supported for source sets.
• Code analysis for Gradle build scripts is not available.
• Gradle Kotlin plugin version 2.1.0 or later is required for non-JVM projects.

Roadmap

Future features will depend on user feedback. Currently planned:

• Find Usages
• Rename Refactoring
• Standalone Language Server

Feedback

Please, use GitHub Issues to report any feedback.

Our Goal

We want developers to enjoy working with Kotlin without having to change their habits.
To achieve this, we aim to create yet another high-quality tool for Kotlin development, including a standalone Language Server implementation.

Open source software used

• Kotlin
• IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition
• MapDB
• Caffeine
• lz4java
• DefinitelyTyped
• esbuild
• Gradle Tooling
• Log4j2
• System Stubs
• vscode-languageserver-node