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The biggest hinderance to me adopting Java for anything meaningful was the build system. Too much XML and complexity. Maven for packages, ugh. Just give me a mo
by gigatexal 5y ago
The biggest hinderance to me adopting Java for anything meaningful was the build system. Too much XML and complexity. Maven for packages, ugh. Just give me a modern package manager. Does such a thing exist that is idiot proof?
- isbvhodnvemrwvn 5y agoMaven is the idiot proof one. Gradle doesn't have XML, but it's extremely easy to make your build scripts unmaintainable.
- jamesfinlayson 5y agoGradle lets you write your build config in Groovy or Kotlin. The possibility for complexity is there but I've found it mostly just works and is reasonably simple - for home projects my gradle.build files are typically 50 lines or so.