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+title: "Google Summer of Code 2023 – Eclipse Gradle Kotlin Script Support"
+date: 2023-12-18 10:00
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+
+The Kotlin Foundation sponsored 4 projects for the Google Summer of Code 2023, and we are excited to announce the completion of the Eclipse Gradle Kotlin Script Support project! Gradle, a Kotlin Foundation member, provided mentoring support for this project, and we'd like to share details about the project.
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+The contributor to this project was [Nikolai Vladimirov](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir0v/), a third-year student from Constructor University, and the mentor was [Donát Csikós](https://github.com/donat), a Senior Software Engineer at Gradle. The project aimed to bring support for Gradle Kotlin Scripts (`.kts`) to the Eclipse IDE.
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+The initial goal was to improve user interaction with Gradle Kotlin scripts inside the Eclipse IDE. The goal was to implement the following functionality:
+
+* Syntax highlighting for Kotlin scripts
+* Content assistance
+* Go-to-definition
+* Accurate diagnostics for syntax errors
+* Signature help
+* Hovering
+
+Nikolai successfully delivered these features by implementing support for Kotlin scripts based on the existing kotlin-language-server project, creating a new system to separate compilation environments for each build script. Here are examples of each feature:
+
+**Syntax highlighting for .kts scripts**
+
+![Syntax highlighting for .kts scripts](image5.png)
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+**Content assistance**
+
+![Content assistance](image1.png)
+
+**Go-to-definition**
+
+![Go-to-definition](image4.gif)
+
+**Accurate Diagnostics for syntax errors**
+
+![Accurate Diagnostics for syntax errors](image2.png)
+
+**Signature help**
+
+![Signature help](image7.png)
+
+**Hovering**
+
+![Hovering](image3.png)
+
+## Installation
+
+The new features are not yet production-ready, and it currently does not work on Windows. Consequently, they are delivered as optional installables. You can find them in the [latest update sites](https://download.eclipse.org/buildship/updates/latest-snapshot/) under the **Buildship Extras - Incubating category**.
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+![Installation](image6.png)
+
+## Next Steps
+
+If you'd like to get involved with improving the Eclipse Kotlin Gradle Script support, there are two parts:
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+* **Eclipse plugin**: The plugin is part of the [Buildship](https://github.com/eclipse/buildship) project. The implementation is in the `org.eclipse.buildship.kotlindsl.provider` subproject.
+* **Language server**: The IDE-agnostic components are implemented in [this repository](https://github.com/D0zee/language-server-for-KTS-scripts/tree/GSoC-work) in the GSoC-work branch.
+
+The remaining tasks are to add a couple of minor features and incrementally improve the reliability, stability, and performance of this plugin.
+
+We are grateful for Nikolai and Donát's contributions to making Kotlin better for developers!