> how many devs really grok the Android gradle plugin and feel comfortable just writing tasks themselves without carefully copying/pasting That plugin uses Apa

> how many devs really grok the Android gradle plugin and feel comfortable just writing tasks themselves without carefully copying/pasting That plugin uses Apache Groovy for its syntax, though in reality only a tiny non-Turing Complete portion of Groovy's syntax is used in virtually every build script out there. The main difficulty with Gradle is really the complex API it exposes to Groovy, e.g. not knowing whether to use an = like in depos = { //stuff } or depos { //stuff }