The author of this blog has been cutting the branch they’re sitting on, making the whole ordeal orders of magnitude more complex then it should be. With that s

The author of this blog has been cutting the branch they’re sitting on, making the whole ordeal orders of magnitude more complex then it should be. With that said, Gradle’s official documentation is indeed bad and the necessary working model is hard to figure out, but that model is sound, and is necessary complexity for solving the general problem of dependency management. The problem is that there is a discrepancy between “download this and that dependency and run it” hobby projects, and the monstrosities that have to exist in large projects. Gradle is a general build tool, it could be used for multiple languages even. The well liked Cargo is of course much more user friendly, but it simply couldn’t be used as a general build tool, so it sheds a lot of weight there.