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Have you written a gradle plugin? It’s like a dark art. The gradle internals are a poorly documented, complicated magical mess. I wrote several gradle plugins u

by nvarsj 3y ago

Have you written a gradle plugin? It’s like a dark art. The gradle internals are a poorly documented, complicated magical mess. I wrote several gradle plugins used by 1000+ devs and I’m about the only one who understood how gradle worked in my whole org - and that was after spilling some serious blood. One of the most poorly overdesigned OSS tools I’ve ever worked on. I also did a lot of maven dev and it was way easier to work with. (TBF this was about 5 years ago so maybe it has improved.)

brabel 3y ago
> (TBF this was about 5 years ago so maybe it has improved.) No, it's gotten worse. They've deprecated most of what you know from 5 years ago and now have different ways of doing the same thing. Not better, except it's probably more "performance friendly" as that's been their priority lately, to make Gradle perform as well as the competitors... mostly, it's just different and even more black arts now as you're forced to use Providers, inject dependencies and so on.