Francis Mariano
01/19/2022, 2:29 PMclasspath("org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:_")
Fleshgrinder
01/19/2022, 2:44 PM_
is used as a placeholder, the plugin looks for this in requested versions and replaces it with the actual version from its configuration file.
Gradle recently introduced the version catalog feature (which will become stable in 7.4) that addresses this in a type-safe way in Kotlin.