How Gradle Works Part 3 - Build Script

Part 3 of the 'How Gradle Works' series explains what happens during Gradle build script execution. It covers the Kotlin and Groovy DSLs used in build scripts, demystifying implicit rules like lambda/closure syntax and chained method invocations. The post also explains how Gradle resolves the chicken-and-egg problem of external dependencies in build scripts by extracting and executing the `plugins {}` block before compiling the rest of the script, then adding resolved dependencies to the classpath before full compilation and execution.