Kotlin is easier to understand for me, and Intellij apparently.

I tried to keep this as much as a 1:1 conversion as I could for this
commit, but will followup with another to clean it up.

Our build script was a mess and it has been bugging me for a while, so I'm
finally cleaning it up. I mostly reorganized things, and removed unnecessary
configuration, but there are some minor changes to note:
- Got rid of the git-version plugin, which shouldn't be necessary since we
  use the VERSION file to manage the project version.
- Got rid of the manual checkstyle dependency, since what we were setting
   it to was already the default.
- Changed test logging to only log failed and skipped, instead of passed and
   stdout/err, which should reduce some noise.
- Fixed the dependency declaration for smithy libraries, which weren't using
   string interpolation, so were literally "[smithyVersion, 2.0[". Either that was
   a thing you could do in groovy, or it's been busted since 2023. Yikes.

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Co-authored-by: Smithy Automation <github-aws-smithy-automation@amazon.com>

Co-authored-by: Smithy Automation <github-aws-smithy-automation@amazon.com>

Added installation instructions, feature list, and details on how the
server understands your project (including documenting
.smithy-project.json). I also added doc comments to the
`SmithyProjectJson` shape.