Is Gradle written in Kotlin?

Gradle released support for Kotlin scripts and Kotlin DSL (In short, DSL makes the code more readable, it’s built in Kotlin feature). Finally, I don’t have to learn that lame Groovy for Gradle scripts. Now I can write my build scripts in my favorite language Kotlin.

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What is Kotlin reflect dependency?

JVM dependency On the JVM platform, the Kotlin compiler distribution includes the runtime component required for using the reflection features as a separate artifact, kotlin-reflect. jar . This is done to reduce the required size of the runtime library for applications that do not use reflection features.7 Ara 2021

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Does Kotlin support reflection?

To me, it had been some sort of black magic unless I came across the idea of reflection. In libraries like Retrofit or Kotlin-serialization, you define a bunch of classes or interfaces and annotate them with some predefined keywords and it works perfectly in the runtime. The same is true for Android .1 Ağu 2021

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What is a KClass Kotlin?

The KClass type is Kotlin’s counterpart to Java’s java. lang. Class type . It’s used to hold references to Kotlin classes; you’ll see what it lets you do with those classes in the “Reflection” section later in this chapter. The type parameter of KClass specifies which Kotlin classes can be referred to by this reference.

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