How can I run a main function with the gradle wrapper?

Same as in Java 😒imple_smile:

I wonder what would be practical use case for this?

Just running your program without having to start an IDE.

Article is correct, it’s just strange advice in section “What if I don’t want to use gradle, and just java” Instead you can build “distribution” using application plugin, it will generate dir with run script and all required jars. If you add also

shadow

plugin, you can build runnable single-jar app