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I am a beginner with Kotlin and have no prior knowledge in Java or the JVM. The biggest hurdle of learning Kotlin for me is the Gradle build system. I experience it as completely opaque and very difficult to understand. The fact that there are two dialects for it (

.gradle

and

.gradle.kts

) makes finding examples even more challenging.