Hey, with gradle kotlin scripts, one of the things that I find a bit toooo noisy compared to plain groovy gradle scripts, is the necessity to put in

${property("foo")}

inside dependencies definitions, i.e.,

compile("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:${property("protobufVersion")}")

I know there is another way of defining the var inside the kts file,

var foo="1.2"

then using

$foo

inside the dependency definition. The latter being more "groovy" like (without the var definition). Is there no shorter way of expressing this?

if you want to use val already defined in gradle.properties you can do this:

val protobufVersion by project

compile("com.google.protobuf:protobuf-java:$protobufVersion")

Which is still more verbose than groovy, but groovy has nonexistent methods interceptors and stuff, it isn't possible in Kotlin.

Thank you! 🙂