On: Fantastic DSLs and where to find them

[vorg]

> Gradle (a Groovy DSL

Gradle is not a Groovy DSL. Gradle enables you to write its build files in either Kotlin or Apache Groovy, and perhaps there'll be more choices later on.

> Implementing this plugin was straightforward, less than 50 lines of Groovy

Did you know Gradleware now recommend using Kotlin for writing plugins for Gradle versions 3.0 and later?

[timv → vorg]

Gradle may not claim to be a "Groovy DSL" anymore, but they certainly used to.

From the overview page at the time of the 1.0 release

At the heart of Gradle lies a rich extensible Domain Specific Language (DSL) based on Groovy. https://web.archive.org/web/20120724040152/http://www.gradle...

Now they just call it a "DSL" but also say that a build script is also a Groovy script https://docs.gradle.org/4.0/dsl/