Neovim for Beginners — Kotlin

Configure Neovim for Kotlin programming.

Neovim for Beginners — Kotlin

In this article, let’s configure Neovim for the Kotlin programming language.

This article is part of the Neovim for Beginners series.

The Neovim configuration files can be found in this repository.

Getting Started

Kotlin command-line compiler

We need to install the Kotlin compiler. For Unix-based systems, such as macOS, Linux, Cygwin, FreeBSD, and Solaris, we can use SDKMAN following the installation guide.

sdk install kotlin

Create a Kotlin Project

To make it easy for demonstration purposes, instead of using an Android application, we will create a Kotlin application using Gradle.

$ gradle init

Select type of project to generate:
  1: basic
  2: application
  3: library
  4: Gradle plugin
Enter selection (default: basic) [1..4] 2

Select implementation language:
  1: C++
  2: Groovy
  3: Java
  4: Kotlin
  5: Scala
  6: Swift
Enter selection (default: Java) [1..6] 4

Select build script DSL:
  1: Groovy
  2: Kotlin
Enter selection (default: Groovy) [1..2] 1

Project name (default: demo):
Source package (default: demo):


BUILD SUCCESSFUL
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