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by yole 3887 days ago
Right now developing a new backend for Kotlin is much harder than necessary because the compiler doesn't have any IR and any desugaring passes - in other words, each backend has to work directly with the full AST (annotated with types etc., but still using all language constructs).

We plan to rework this post-1.0, after which building a new backend will be much more feasible.