I've developed Java for a long time. Ant was at least predictable, though left a lot to be desired. Gradle has always been a tangle of DSL that nobody understan

I've developed Java for a long time. Ant was at least predictable, though left a lot to be desired. Gradle has always been a tangle of DSL that nobody understands, but just gets copied from random examples and Github repos without any understanding of how or why it works. Maven is still the best build system I've used in any language or ecosystem. It is predictable, stable, has a great community of plugins, and uses XML as it was meant to be used, which is far better than the JSON / DSL monstrosities I see with newer, "cooler" build tools.