Writing IntelliJ Plugins for Kotlin

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Shows converting an existing Dagger line‑marker gutter plugin to use UAST so one implementation finds injections in both Java fields and Kotlin properties and the icon appears in mixed projects. Uses the Kotlin plugin on the classpath and the Gradle IntelliJ plugin to declare language dependencies and run/build tasks, and demonstrates inspecting trees with the PSI viewer. Explains UElement vs Psi source elements, when to call getSourcePsi, and that UAST works for language‑agnostic analyses while PSI is needed for text ranges and references.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:52Writing Code
3. 2:52Running Code
4. 5:56Plugins
5. 9:40Imports
6. 30:36UAST use cases

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