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I hate to be "that guy" but ... raises hand. Spock is also a DSL disaster that's trying to be ScalaTest (https://www.scalatest.org/user_guide/property_based_te

• bombcar 3y ago
  My problem with gradle is I never use it enough to get familiar with it, once the problem is solved I promptly forget everything.
  • AtlasBarfed 3y ago
    It's the perfect example of a bad DSL. A "DSL" like SQL that you use hundreds of times a year you'll learn the model of. A DSL like groovy that you use once for project setup (and for that you'll one-off it likely and stackoverflow the rest of the question) is not. And it isn't really natural, it's a bunch of arcane steps that at the end might superficially look a bit consistent, but still really isn't. Groovy really needs an autocompleter or a generator. Or, well, as you say, you stackoverflow for everything outside the very vanilla basics of it. But good luck getting the right version match to the syntax you need. Christ.
    • ackfoobar 3y ago
      Having types in Gradle by using the Kotlin DSL, with IntelliJ auto-complete, solves ~80% of that pain.