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Granted it was many years ago, but my only experience with Gradle was through Android Studio. Basically, as I remember it, every time Android studio updated Gr
by josteink 6y ago
Granted it was many years ago, but my only experience with Gradle was through Android Studio.
Basically, as I remember it, every time Android studio updated Gradle, my project broke. No exceptions, even though this was a stock Android Studio project.
Seemingly things are still that terrible? If so, why do you people keep using it?
What problems does Gradle solve which other build-systems don’t solve better
- ohgodplsno 6y agoGradle is sufficiently implanted into the Android ecosytem that moving away is hard. When you have a project with 80+ modules, buildSrc contents, gradle plugins, well, moving to Bazel isn't exactly a one day job. Add to that that many things add Gradle plugins that might be necessary for your workflow, and well, you're in a bad state.
- thu2111 6y agoUnfortunately that's also now the case for the Kotlin ecosystem. I attempted to use Maven recently for a simple Kotlin project and recently switched to Gradle. This is NOT because I like Gradle. Oh god if there is any project and company that badly needs some competition it is Gradle Inc. But the Maven/Kotlin ecosystem is bit-rotting. Maven itself is hardly maintained. It's now common to find libraries or tools that only really work properly with Gradle and de-prioritise Maven related issues. Gradle is winning by default, even though it's arguably a step sideways from Maven.