Maybe this is a dumb question but I thought gradle kts was released a while ago. Why does everyone in this thread still complains about groovy? Could they not just use kotlin?
It's not an easy switch. Still most of the examples and articles are in Groovy. Until recently, IDE (IntelliJ) support for Gradle Kotlin DSL was abysmal (like analysing stuff on the main thread). Only recently it's getting more traction as the worst issues have been resolved.