[pjmlp]

I will quote the blog post announcing Kotlin as project, so naturally it is tied to InteliJ.

"The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin."

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...

[minraws]

Given how much outside support they have received they could also make a paid lsp available like they had Resharper, I would be willing to pay for a paid lsp if I use the language enough.

10$ a month for an LSP with all the bells and whistles, should be easier to maintain than an entire IDE tbh. And they can sell me on advanced features in their IDEs through it.

I just don't want to have to open a bulky IDE anymore, IDEs just suck for me as a development tool.