Regarding the new best practices guide, would it be possible to get some (AI-based 😅 ) Gradle plugin that takes this information and checks the build files against it?

i always felt like gradle would benefit from a linter. lol I do use gradle-doctor though and it catches a lot of small things wrong with a build

There's also Nebula Gradle Lint plugin, but it only supports Groovy DSL

I love this idea Sebastian. I think gradle-doctor is the best place. Maybe I can look into updating it to include Best Practices

You mean https://github.com/runningcode/gradle-doctor, @Laura Kassovic?

Yup.