Originally designed for Groovy, Gradle now supports writing scripts in Kotlin. Writing your scripts in Kotlin brings more compile-type safety and IDE features but also has a few drawbacks.
In this talk, we will take a look some widely used Groovy constructs, their Kotlin equivalent and what’s happening under the hood. We will explore how Gradle loads scripts and uses Kotlin compiler flags to allow a the Kotlin DSL syntax.
Speakers: Martin Bonnin