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Add Kotlin Support using ktlint formatter

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Read the ktlint project linked in the issue and inspect the existing formatter integrations in codefmt to find the appropriate extension point. Done means codefmt can invoke ktlint to format Kotlin code, with behavior matching the project's existing formatter integrations.

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Description

new formatter

ktlint (https://github.com/pinterest/ktlint) can format Kotlin code, and it'd be nice to have it integrated into codefmt.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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