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What's the idiomatic way of enabling experimental kotlin features like `when guard statements` for a gradle project (module)?

<https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gradle-compiler-options.html#example-of-additional-arguments-usage-via-freecompilerargs|https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gradle-compiler-options.html#example-of-additional-arguments-usage-via-freecompilerargs>

If anyone is interested there is a type-safe way that avoids using `freeCompilerArgs`

```kotlin {
    sourceSets.all {
        languageSettings.enableLanguageFeature(LanguageFeature.ExplicitBackingFields.name)
        languageSettings.enableLanguageFeature(LanguageFeature.WhenGuards.name)
    }
} ```

Not sure if idiomatic or not, I don't like the fact I can't specify features in bulk but seems to be a good way forward considering it's compatible with KMP projects and type-safe
The only drawback I see at the moment is kind of ugly import statement inside `gradle.build.kts`