Jorel Ali

It would be very good to get this implemented (or at least have made significant progress on this) for a 8.5.0 release due late July or early August.

Lovely! I've been trying to get some way to get the annotation system for the CommandAPI compatible with Kotlin but haven't managed to make much progress. I know a few...

Work for this is currently taking place in the [dev/annotations](https://github.com/JorelAli/CommandAPI/tree/dev/annotations) branch, and will be released whenever the annotations branch is ready

This is a relatively large PR and plan to release 8.5.1 soon (due on Friday 12th at the latest). As such, I won't be able to get round to this...

I've updated the PR with the latest changes (8.5.1's release). I've begun drafting a review of this PR and will get back to you when I'm done. For all intents...

> The advantage of using this brigadier Message type is that the adventure chat api components implement Message directly so no conversion is necessary. I might be missing something, but...

Looks very promising. I should be able to have a test of this PR this time tomorrow or the day after and hopefully we can get this merged over!

> The BaseComponent API is deprecated according to the sources downloaded in IntelliJ. The BaseComponent API is deprecated _according to Paper_, which makes sense because paper has the Adventure API....

I've tested everything and everything's looking fantastic. There's just the one last point about `BukkitComponentSerializer` which should be `GsonComponentSerializer` and once that's completed we're good to merge!

@469512345 This feature has already surpassed my expectations and has made a number of developers in my community happy, thanks very much for this PR! ❤️