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I know this is a total non-issue, but why does adding kotlin to a `build.gradle` require so many steps? Groovy, for example, only requires `apply plugin: 'groovy'`. Just curious about this

are you talking about the `buildscript { ... }` stuff or `kotlin { ... }`?

The `buildscript` block. Does that enable the `kotlin` block?

because groovy is bundled with gradle (gradle is written in groovy). in order to get kotlin running you need to tell gradle where to find the gradle-kotlin-plugin

Ah, I see. I knew Gradle was written in Groovy, but I had forgotten that they bundled the entire Groovy plugin with it. I wonder if Kotlin could be bundled, too..

your `build.gradle` is just ordinary groovy code

They could do that without bundling the groovy plugin. I think it's two separate things

Theoretically kotlin could be bundled with gradle, but the question is why should they bundle kotlin and not scala or clojure?