> Gradle requires me to use a totally different programming language just to write configuration There's an alternative to using Apache Groovy for writing Grad

> Gradle requires me to use a totally different programming language just to write configuration There's an alternative to using Apache Groovy for writing Gradle config scripts: https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle . If you also use Kotlin instead of Java for your software on the JVM then you can stick to one language for everything.