How to create a Kotlin console application with Gradle in Intellij IDEA

Indeed it's quite weird, I've never seen the dialog to look like yours (mine looks like the one in the tutorials). However, choosing the template doesn't do anything special - it simply creates the main file, which you can do so yourself.

So create a new project with the "JVM/IDEA" option. If it already opens up a main.kt file, you don't need to do anything else. If it didn't, look in the src folder - you should see a folder named main with a folder named kotlin (with a blue icon instead of grey) inside - here's where you wanna create your main file (right click -> new kotlin file/class -> main.kt and make it a file, not a class). Finally, put this in the file:

fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello world!") } 

Note: if you don't have a kotlin folder, create the file in the folder with the blue icon (might even be src). Also, if this doesn't use Gradle (for some reason), create a Gradle project instead, and at the "Additional libraries and frameworks" option, uncheck Java and check Kotlin, then continue with creating main.kt if it isn't created.

You may create a Kotlin + gradle project from the terminal:

$mkdir myProject; cd myProject; gradle init 

follow the tutorial.

And then start the Intellij & open the dir You're good to go

Same process like this

The same happened to me but I figured out how to fix it:

Just disable Material Theme UI.