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Have you seen the android build system? I mean what the hell is a gradle wrapper. At least js tools are configured in .json or .js files not in a special purpos

• netvl 5y ago
  Android apps are written in Kotlin, and Gradle config is also written in Kotlin. How come it is different from the JS situation? Even though Gradle can be configured in Groovy, and Android apps can be written in Java, it is still the same ecosystem - basically, the situation of TypeScript/PureScript/WhateverScript and JavaScript. Gradle wrapper is just a name for a script (automatically created by Gradle btw) which allows one not to have any kind of Gradle-related tooling installed on the machine (basically, to run build tasks you execute `./gradlew someTask`, and it takes care about downloading and running the appropriate Gradle version) - which I think is a clear benefit over the fact that you need to have `npm` installed system-wide or via a tool like NVM in order to build JS projects. Gradle has its own warts, and a lot of them, but at least there is only one major build system in this area, and it is simply impossible for a library published to a Maven repo to be dependent on the build system it is built with.