just asking out of curiosity, started using `kobal...

# spring

[roberto.guerra]

just asking out of curiosity, started using kobalt and I like it better than gradle so far.

[nfrankel]

i don’t understand
i use maven for kotlin
i have no trouble with it
what’s the added value of a build tool dedicated for the language?
again, look at scala and where it brought them

[orangy]

Scala also got their own repo, and not that awesome bidirectional interop. Kobalt works with maven repos, so it’s just a different build tool, not entirely new universe to download from.

[roberto.guerra]

I wasn’t advocating for everyone to use kobalt, was just asking a question because I’m personally enjoying using Kobalt.

[Czar]

Current state of kotlin-dsl for gradle is quite good, so although I like kobalt, played with it for a bit, I don't see any compelling reason to switch.
Also I don't see any compelling reason for Spring team to spend resources on supporting it on start.spring.io, kobalt adoption is mostly limited to a very small portion of kotlinlang slack users for now.