CAN KOTLIN SAVE ME FROM MY GROOVY BUILDSCRIPTS?
summary
Kotlin Gradle DSL (v0.17.5) gives type-safe autocomplete and compile-time checks for build scripts, but incurs a first-use compile cost when build sources change because scripts currently don’t compile in parallel. Real projects saw 19 modules → ~18s compile, later 23 modules → 11.5s after Gradle performance work. Migration requires workarounds for imports and extension functions inside buildScript blocks, some missing docs, and relies on accessors generated by codegen for plugin and convention bindings.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and motivation
- 1:23Pros and cons overview
- 8:57Migration examples
- 10:01Extension functions explained
- 11:26Plugins block migration
- 16:55Dependencies block migration
- 21:50Code generation in Kotlin DSL
- 23:37Java compatibility block
- 28:59Recommendations and closing
