Cedric Beust made a great alternative to Gradle called Kobalt. Unfortunately, Jetbrains went with Gradle — probably in order to associate Kotlin with a known e

Cedric Beust made a great alternative to Gradle called Kobalt. Unfortunately, Jetbrains went with Gradle — probably in order to associate Kotlin with a known entity. Now we are stuck in a terrible situation where step 1 of any java/kotlin project is unpleasant because you have to write a long XML file (Maven) or a magical and incomprehensible build file in groovy/kts (Gradle).