what's the difference between

"implementation"

and

implementation

? either I can't use search engine or noone explains it https://docs.gradle.org/5.0/userguide/multi_project_builds.html#sec:project_jar_dependencies

They do the same thing.

@Dominaezzz in the end, yeah they should. The thing is if I extract dependencies block to .gradle.kts I can't use the latter one without applying plugins. I've asked because I don't understand how it works and when to use it

The latter is quite limited as every possible string isn't statically defined. Only

implemention

,

api

,

compile

, etc. You don't get

testImplementation

but you can work-around that with

"testImplementation"

. I think of the former as a work-around.

This is not a "workaround", string version is default way to define dependency in configuration, type safe version is available only when you applied plugin, so Gradle knows exactly which configurations are available in this plugin, so it may generate type safe accessors

Think you need to use special plugins {} block no?

This wouldn't be something different