> Maven was intended to be configured via a GUI. This is something I didn't know. Did the maven company, Sonatype, ever produce such a tool? It seemed to tak

> Maven was intended to be configured via a GUI. This is something I didn't know. Did the maven company, Sonatype, ever produce such a tool? It seemed to take years for Java IDE's to finally interoperate seamlessly with maven (was it 10 years for Eclipse?), and by then Gradle was popular and set to unseat it. I use Gradle daemon when performance becomes an issue, and Gradle is fast enough with that. Maven is no performance superstar. The maven plugin ecosystem also seemed impenetrable, whereas Gradle promoted plugin development and, lo and behold, they have a vibrant plugin ecosystem! The Maven XML language deserves to be slagged, it seemed designed to frustrate and hamstring the developer.