Hi folks, whats the difference in my kotlin-based gradle dsl between

implementation(platform("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-bom"))
implementation("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk8")

and

implementation(kotlin("stdlib"))

Both seem to work fine for my project so i'd like to understand what each is doing?

The latter one is an extension function, which returns a

String

. You can step into it and you will see, that it concatenates “org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-” with what you passed,

stdlib

. so in the end it’s exactly the same

and the platform line is useful to make sure that transient kotlin dependencies have the correct version

Ahh yes "bill of material"

note that you may see a BOM-like effect without it, because the kotlin plugin declares special version constraints, but it is not the same as using the BOM