tashburn
Reputation: 175
Intellij's Kotlin Compiler "Target VM version" options are confusing
In the IntelliJ IDEA (Community 2021.1) Settings for the Kotlin Compiler, there's a "Target JVM version" menu with the following confusing options: 1.6, 1.8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 1.6.
Are these in chronological order?
Why are there two 1.6's?
Which one is the latest?
Why don't these match the JVM versions here?
Upvotes: 1
Views: 385
Answers (1)
a1cd
Reputation: 25256
Are these in chronological order?
yes, going down. (in the second image, I guess not)
Why are there two 1.6's?
there aren't, it's a 1.6 and a 1.8, and one is probably from a different java compiler producer
Which one is the latest?
- [edit: as of today, 16]
Why don't these match the JVM versions here?
Likely because it is hard to support every version of java that is released.
Upvotes: 2
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