⛑️ Kotlin Support in VSCode

My current job uses 🧑‍💻️ Kotlin as the main backend programming language. At the same time, I’m also a huge fan of VSCode. So the logical conclusion would be to attempt to set up Kotlin in VSCode, which I can only assume many other developers tried doing too. I very quickly concluded that Kotlin just begs to use IntelliJ. That is not so strange though because JetBrains is the company behind Kotlin and the creator of IntelliJ. Even though it already felt like swimming against the stream from the start, I still attempted to get a usable setup in VSCode. VSCode extensions There are many articles to be found online that discuss using VSCode for Kotlin development, such as: Programming with Kotlin in Visual Studio Code Learning Kotlin: Programming with Visual Studio Code Setup VSCode for Kotlin Development And the list goes on… These articles refer to the extension Kotlin Language by mathiasfrohlich. Additionally, another extension called Kotlin by fwcd is also available in the Visual Stu