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I feel sorry for the developers after reading all these comments. Why would they continue with such a project that gets such little love?

• TheLogothete 11y ago
  Supply and demand holds true for everything.
• progx 11y ago
  I like and use grunt, but i use other tools too.
• mikegioia 11y ago
  The comments here are not indicative of the developers at-large. This is mostly posturing to validate decisions to use other tools. I love Grunt, I understand the complaints but it's a great system that's easy to understand and work with. It's not unlike Makefiles but the learning curve is lower with Grunt.
• Cthulhu_ 11y ago
  Because haters are always more vocal than the average user; complaining is easier (and easier to trigger) than praise. The Grunt team compares the complaints with the actual amount of users and realizes it's a small (but vocal) minority, and that besides those, tens of thousands of projects use and depend on Grunt existing and staying maintained. My previous project used Grunt because at the time it was the only tool existing (besides maybe using NPM directly, but using that for web projects wasn't hip yet at the time). We looked at Gulp for a while, realized that yes it would be a more compact configuration and such, but at the same time that it'd cost two weeks to convert the project to gulp without much advantages - builds were a few times a week, so no reason to move to Gulp to speed that up by a few seconds.