Hey, with gradle kotlin scripts, one of the things that I find a bit toooo noisy compared to plain groovy gradle scripts, is the necessity to put in

${property("foo")}

inside dependencies definitions, i.e.,

compile("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:${property("protobufVersion")}")

I know there is another way of defining the var inside the kts file,

var foo="1.2"

then using

$foo

inside the dependency definition. The latter being more "groovy" like (without the var definition). Is there no shorter way of expressing this?

ta

Anyway, using `val`s seems the best for now. Unless something changed since I tried Gradle+Kotlin.