In http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gradle_features_on_the_2014_roadmap http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gra...

In http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gradle_features_on_the_2014_roadmap http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/revolutionary_new_gra... , the Gradle founder writes "what is ultimately needed is a fundamental solution within Gradle that eliminates the overhead in the IDE-to-Gradle communication". That solution would be to enable any JVM language to be used with Gradle, not just Groovy. Then you wouldn't be tied to SBT as you then could use Scala to configure Gradle.