Hello friends, I'm launching an open-source projec...

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[jmfayard]

Hello friends,
I'm launching an open-source project that I worked on during KotlinConf!

I've written a larger article or why I did this. Basically I got interested in Gradle+Kotlin because was fed up with the black magic in Gradle+Groovy, of not understanding neither how it works or why it doesn't work.

Rewriting your entire build to Kotlin can be daunting, but you don't need to do that. I have found out that adding just a bit of Kotlin to your existing build can relieve a lot of that Gradle frustration. And my project gradle-kotlin-dsl-libs makes it easy to you have a first taste of Gradle+Kotlin.

https://blog.kotlin-academy.com/gradle-kotlin-the-missing-piece-of-the-puzzle-7528a85f0d2c

[elect]

you should also take a look at kobalt

[cedric]

I see a few common ideas with Kobalt indeed

[jmfayard]

@cedric I didn't use Kobalt per se, but it was instrumental for me to realize that things were not right with Gradle/Groovy.
In some sense Gradle moving to Kotlin proves you were right

[janvladimirmostert]

the only reason i tried Gradle was due to the Kotlin script, Groovy was horrible. With the KotlinScript in place, i might just ditch Maven for Gradle