Investigating Methods to Accelerate the Solving Process of Errors and Warnings Generated by Kotlin Compilers

Sammanfattning: The efficiency of error messages that are generated from compilers is up to a debate by a lot of programmers. Some believe that by enhancing the error messages, it would be easier to handle errors faster. In this paper, the ways to enhance compiler error messages and the efficiency of the found solutions for Kotlin programming language were investigated. To do this, Kotlin programmers were interviewed about the severity of the problem and possible ways to deal with it. An example plugin project was made to describe the possible concept of solving the problem described in the compiler's error message. Afterward, the same programmers were interviewed again to discuss the efficiency and practicality of the plugin. With the last interviews being done, it was seen that this plugin idea has the potential to help the computer science society and the programmers by enhancing error and warning messages.