what’s the recommend way to prompt a user for input?

How is that related to Kotlin

I can’t use System.console() and I’m unsure if there is anything similar because readLine() and gradle output are kinda weird

Are you talking about prompt user for Gradle task or for your application which you run with Gradle?

@gildor I want to create an initProject task which generates a dev profile spring boot

console is available if you will run gradle without daemon mode enabled. Other workaround would be trigger some UI (search in internet - stumbled around this solution some time ago) And last possible way is to use kotlin script (not gradle one), see https://github.com/Tapchicoma/ktsexec-gradle. Note that this

ktsexec

task is experimental as kotlin script is currently actively developed and in next release it would changed quite a lot.