Hi folks, whats the difference in my kotlin-based gradle dsl between ```implementation(platform("or...

# gradle

[tim]

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?

[Syex]

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

[christophsturm]

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

[tim]

Ahh yes "bill of material"

[tim]

👍

[octylFractal]

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