Kotlin script support

[paulvi]

Gradle now supports other language Kotlin in addition to Groovy DSL

see

• https://docs.gradle.org/3.0/release-notes
• https://docs.gradle.org/3.1/release-notes
• https://docs.gradle.org/3.2/release-notes
• https://docs.gradle.org/3.3/release-notes
• https://docs.gradle.org/current/release-notes

The Kotlin plugin for Eclipse is developed by JetBrains

Example build.gradle.kts

import org.gradle.api.tasks.*

apply<ApplicationPlugin>()

configure<ApplicationPluginConvention> {
    mainClassName = "org.gradle.samples.HelloWorld"
}

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    compile("commons-lang:commons-lang:2.4")
    testCompile("junit:junit:4.12")
}

task<Copy>("copyConfig") {
    from("src/main/conf")
    into("build/conf")
    exclude("**/*.old")
    includeEmptyDirs = false
}

[de-jcup]

Kotlin seems to have static types so it would be much easier to integrate. Maybe this could be done later. The Model approach EGradle uses for outline model is independent from groovy itself and could be filled from Kotlin-Sources as well.

[de-jcup]

https://github.com/antlr/grammars-v4/tree/master/kotlin