On 23.05.2016 13:57, Cédric Champeau wrote:
I really would like to see a gradle DSL example in Kotlin that
cannot made static checked in Groovy. Because things like accessing
dynamic properties won´t work in Kotlin as well.
I made it very clear in my blog post: the Kotlin DSL is based on a new
API that the static Groovy DSL could use too. That's not an issue. But
Kotlin makes it significantly easier for IDEs because it is statically
compiled, and therefore there's absolutely no need for an external DSL
descriptor: all the constructs of the language, like extension methods
or static builders are first class language features. The issue is, IDE
support for Groovy is lacking (Groovy Eclipse is dead, IntelliJ needs to
know specifics of static Gradle/Groovy scripts, ...)
I was thinking about our extension methods as well as annotated closures
parameters. In my opinion we have the basics there, so the question is
how o make it more easy to use for the static compiler. Like having an
import for a static extension method container and reducing the scope
... aka static categories. And so on.
Bye Jochen
