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It isn't really the case that poorly designed technologies die out, necessarily. They just need to have one killer advantage. Javascript, as the only option, PH
by blandflakes 6y ago
It isn't really the case that poorly designed technologies die out, necessarily. They just need to have one killer advantage. Javascript, as the only option, PHP prior to getting its act together won with its extremely low barrier to entry both in terms of learning the language and getting it running somewhere. So gradle having users doesn't convey to me that it's necessarily well-designed. I think it's "killer advantage" was that it's not xml.
- p2detar 6y agoJs and PHP: fine, but it’s not quite clear from your post what that killer advantage of Gradle is. Having users? Hmm.
- pjmlp 6y agoAndroid.
- p2detar 6y agoSo what are the alternatives for building stuff on Android other than Gradle?
- pjmlp 6y agoWhat Google's own teams use instead of what they push to everyone else via Android's SDK, Bazel and Soong. Or Facebook's Buck.
- p2detar 6y agoNice. I'm genuinely interested. I do not work on Android apps, but I use Gradle in semi-large web app and lots of fat jar projects. Do you happen to know if there are any perf measurements that outline Gradle is slower?
- pjmlp 6y agoBasically every Android conference has a set of talks on how to make Gradle perform in usable ways, including setting up the background daemon to use as much RAM as it can, RAM disks, SSDs. Tricks that Maven, or the other build systems never required.
- p2detar 6y agoWell, in all fairness I switched from Maven to Gradle exactly due to low performance. Gradle gave my projects a boost of 3 to 7 times faster build speeds. RAM is not an issue for my setups, although I can’t recall how Maven held there against Gradle. Buck looks quite interesting. Thanks for pointing it out!
- blandflakes 6y agoThe implication that there are few alternatives would lump gradle exactly into the same group of technologies as Javascript, then :)
- blandflakes 6y agoI tried to say in the last sentence that I think most people who abandoned maven for Gradle mostly just hate xml, sorry if you missed the sentence saying that.