IntelliJ Plugin is missing

[gmitch215]

Woke up to find that the IntelliJ plugin no longer exists.

Can't search for it, and the direct link reports a 404.

[soywiz]

Korge plugin was removed from the marketplace as it was outdated.

There are three options now:

• Use https://forge.korge.org/
• Use Intellij without the Korge plugin. It is not required to use Korge with gradle
• If you are using an old intellij version compatible with the plugin: https://github.com/korlibs/korge-intellij-plugin/releases/tag/v4.0.4 here is a zip file you can install in IntelliJ

[gmitch215]

If the plugin wasn't necessary for development, what was its original purpose? Is this purpose still relevant?

[soywiz]

Project templates, store and documentation acces inside the IDE, intents for color choosing among others, resource explorer and hot reloading preview inside the IDE, etc.
All that is optional to use KorGE, as it is a plain library and a Gradle plugin.

KorGE Forge is like an IntelliJ with the plugin. It is done to provide a version of the IntelliJ platform that is compatible with the code while providing a better experience by removing functionality unrelated to Kotlin. For KorGE development, Forge is the supported and recommended way, but optional.