I spend my time in Java. More than a few times I have cursed out Maven. But it seems like whenever I go to another compiled language I end up wishing I just ha

I spend my time in Java. More than a few times I have cursed out Maven. But it seems like whenever I go to another compiled language I end up wishing I just had Maven. Extensible, widely adopted, builds + dependencies. I remember autotools + make, and that didn’t do dependencies for me. CMake doesn’t look much better. NPM/Yarn/whatever is a mess too. I don’t even remember what Haskell uses. Go wasn’t bad but that was early days before dependencies were added (which was a problem in itself). I haven’t looked at it lately. Standard repos. Standard dependencies. Standard layouts. Standard plugins. It can be a bit much, yeah it’s XML, and it’s over engineered for many projects. But I always seem to end up finding I hate Maven much less than whatever language X uses.