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Sad that there is no option to generate a new project's Gradle files in Kotlin DSL, in Android Studio - this seems like a benchmark for adoption.

Most of AS tooling related to build.gradle is not working with Kotlin DSL, even basic ones, like reimport of project which generates build.gradle near your build.gradle.kts, so I believe there is long path until they add it

After you've done it a time or two on a new project it's not that difficult or time consuming. But the order of steps is important. I could never remember that so I documented the process as I went through it and wrote a gist to remind myself.
<https://gist.github.com/alwarren/28f292e59d241cea4c816eefff18d681>

```
tasks{
    val clean by registering(Delete::class) {
        delete(buildDir)
    }
}
```

`registering&lt;Delete&gt;("clean")`

Anyway, there is great official migration guide:
<https://guides.gradle.org/migrating-build-logic-from-groovy-to-kotlin/>

Kotlin DSL is pretty much fine now, but stable AS is still on IDEA 2018.*, some important fixes available only on 2019
Also I believe AS tooling is bigger problem than Kotlin DSL itself

<@U0BRK9HC5> On the clean task, that was sort of the point I was trying to make in the gist notes where I mentioned things can be version dependent. I had a hard time even following documentation because of that. I had already tried `registering&lt;Delete&gt;("clean")` but it didn't compile for whatever reason at the time.

oh, sorry, I meant `register&lt;Delete&gt;("clean")`

I think I tried that too. :rolling_on_the_floor_laughing:

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Might have been a version specific thing at the time I tried it. Or maybe I was looking at wrong documents for the version I was using. Hard to tell.