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Harsh Shandilya updated content/posts/tips-for-building-kotlin-libraries.md
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title = "Tips and tricks for building libraries in Kotlin"
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Building a library is arguably a far more involved task than building an application. You need to be _extra_ mindful of your dependencies, and ensure that you are not breaking source and/or binary compatibility unintentionally. When doing so in Kotlin, you may also need to also provide an idiomatic API surface for Java callers if you're offering JVM support.
I have _some_ experience building libraries, and have had the fortune of seeing a **lot** of other, much smarter people do it. This post aims to serve as a collection of what I've learned by doing things myself and observing others, that will hopefully be helpful to people trying their hand at library development.
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fun newBuilder() = Builder(this)
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Since the version here is set to `999.9`, which hopefully Kotlin will never be over, any attempt to use this will result in a compiler error. The only way to work around this madness is to be equally mad and pass `-api-version 999.9`, which you'd never do, right? 😬
Since the version here is set to `999.9`, which hopefully Kotlin will never be over, any attempt to use this will result in a compiler error. The only way to work around this madness is to be equally mad and pass `-api-version 999.9`, which you'd never do, right? 😬