Maven issues: XML. Ugh, the XML. The backing company was a bit too eager to sell artifact repository software. The lingo was pointlessly obscure (coordinates

Maven issues: XML. Ugh, the XML. The backing company was a bit too eager to sell artifact repository software. The lingo was pointlessly obscure (coordinates? artifacts? "project object model"?) It didn't offer a couple key options (local jars without an artifact repository) so it was too inflexible. Gradle did fly off the handle too quickly, breaks wayyy too much stuff with each release, has way too many releases and examples that don't work anymore... but on the other hand you can usually cobble together what you want from a couple sample builds and some stackoverflow. What the JVM community probably needed was a YAML-based Maven with a bit more flexibility than maven provided.