Setting up a Java/Kotlin/Groovy project takes two clicks these days: http://start.spring.io http://start.spring.io And that is a simple template that just tak

Setting up a Java/Kotlin/Groovy project takes two clicks these days: http://start.spring.io http://start.spring.io And that is a simple template that just takes advantage of curated OSS ecosystem dependencies by the Spring team. There’s really no magic, I find Maven or Gradle to be as opaque as say Gem bundles, Bower, or NPM and Grunt (Or whatever the new flavour du jour in Node land is). That is to say, the core concepts are all mostly similar but just slightly different enough to cause hair loss. And let’s not talk about Golang dependency managers...