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<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d>

This is redundant, `tasks.withType` is enough
<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d#file-build-kts->
L47-L58

This
<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d#file-build-kts-L44-L46>

Can be replaced with
```java.sourceCompatibility = JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8```

Redundant block
<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d#file-build-kts-L11-L13>

No need to apply `java` plugin, kotlin jvm already implicitly uses it
<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d#file-build-kts-L6>

<https://gist.github.com/bjonnh/a858259caae88c7f363a2ae7a0a3da1d#file-build-kts-L60-L65>

Can be replaced with this (if you use Gradle 5):
```
tasks.shadowJar {
    baseName = "app"
    classifier = ""
    version = ""
    mergeServiceFiles()
}
```

This is not 100% equivalent, configures particular task `shadowJar`, not all tasks of this type as your existing snippet, but by default you have only one such task (and runShadow depends on it)

You use pretty old version of shadow plugin, not sure that it works properly with the latest versions of Gradle, I would recommend to use latest one: 4.0.3
<https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/com.github.johnrengelman.shadow>

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