Uh, I don't know how it is now, but back (10 years ago) when I used Maven on a day to day basis, it was a complete nightmare. Editing XML "human readable" file

Uh, I don't know how it is now, but back (10 years ago) when I used Maven on a day to day basis, it was a complete nightmare. Editing XML "human readable" files to get into a working configuration was tedious and time consuming. Same with Ant. I won't say that JavaScript is amazing (I don't like it myself), but even reading the name Maven brings me back painful memories.