Features
- ++ + Kobalt is a build system inspired by Gradle and Maven. It reuses the best concepts from these two + successful and popular build systems while adding a few modern features of its own. Kobalt is written + entirely in Kotlin and its build files are valid Kotlin files as well. Thanks to IDEA's top notch + support for Kotlin, writing Kobalt build files automatically benefits from auto completion and all + the other features that you are used to when writing code with your IDE of choice. + +
++ + Here are some of Kobalt's most prominent features. + +
Build file auto-completion in your IDE
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++ Since Kobalt's build files are actual Kotlin files, not only can you leverage auto-completion + to write your build files but the full power of your IDEA is at your fingertips to write + these files in any way you see fit: using expressions, conditionals, classes, extension functions, + constants... The sky is the limit! +
++ Kobalt uses Kotlin's type safe builder pattern to offer a DSL that's extremely similar to Gradle + and minimalistic while allowing you to switch to full Kotlin code whenever necessary. +
++ Here is an example of the auto-completion dialog: +
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+ And see the following section to get a feel for Kobalt's build file syntax. +
Clean, minimal syntax for build files