> I'd argue that Maven is lightyears ahead of NPM or pack or gulp or whatever the fuck the kids are using these days. Would you? You think a build system that’

> I'd argue that Maven is lightyears ahead of NPM or pack or gulp or whatever the fuck the kids are using these days. Would you? You think a build system that’s so pointlessly convoluted and verbose that you’re literally encouraged to resort to copy-pasting blocks of XML and using fucking Eclipse to accomplish even the most basic tasks is somehow superior to package.json or Gulpfile.js setups?