I still use Ant - but with one key trick and a bit of discpline. The key trick is to reuse common tasks between different projects by importing them. Originall

I still use Ant - but with one key trick and a bit of discpline. The key trick is to reuse common tasks between different projects by importing them. Originally we did this using XML entities. https://ant.apache.org/faq.html#xml-entity-include https://ant.apache.org/faq.html#xml-entity-include Eventually the Ant import task came along and we now use that. That way the project specific stuff stays very small, all projects have the same set of commands - but you can still customise relatively easily if you really need to. I find it funny when people blame the messy complexity of some build script on the tool rather than the people who built it...