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What limitations or disadvantages could lead to abandoning Koin in large-scale applications?

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Koin is a lightweight DI framework for Kotlin, but in large-scale applications, the following limitations may arise:

  • Lack of compile-time checks: Koin uses runtime injection, which can lead to errors detected only at runtime, not at compile time.
  • Performance during initialization: with a large number of modules and dependencies, startup time may increase due to dynamic dependency resolution.
  • Lack of support for complex scenarios: Koin is less flexible compared to Dagger/Hilt when working with multi-module projects and complex dependency graphs.
  • Smaller community and ecosystem: compared to Dagger, Koin has fewer tools and examples for large-scale projects.

Because of these reasons, larger projects often choose more strict and performant solutions such as Dagger or Hilt.