Because Maven (the tool) offers XML as the language, we can put any other language atop it, e.g. with https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven https://github.co

Because Maven (the tool) offers XML as the language, we can put any other language atop it, e.g. with https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven https://github.com/takari/polyglot-maven we can use Clojure, Groovy, Ruby, or Scala as the language. Gradle offers only Groovy, nothing else, so we don't have any choice over how to interact with the build API.