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I would also add that there isn’t too many players in its category of general build tools. Like, sure, you can have a go-specific build tool that is more ergono

by kaba0 2y ago

I would also add that there isn’t too many players in its category of general build tools. Like, sure, you can have a go-specific build tool that is more ergonomic, but it chokes the instant you add a c dependency. I guess there is only bazel and gradle that are on this level of capability, being able to compile polyglot code bases. Probably also cmake, but compared to that, gradle looks as if it was designed by God itself, even though it severely lacks in ergonomics.

SOLAR_FIELDS 2y ago
Yeah, I’ll also add is that while Gradle is technically a generic build tool, in practice the ecosystem realistically only makes sense to use for JVM code. All of the JS, Docker, Python, other plugins have significant issues due to only being supported/maintained by a few people. As well as Gradle giving a lot of JVM based caching for tasks set up as part of vanilla Gradle, that aren’t set up in these other ecosystems. I would argue Buildkit is also trying to be this kind of tool but is significantly less mature.