Ant worked well because it was extremely _explicit_: You had to say what you wanted. This gave it a lot of flexibility. Unlike some other tools, you aren't runn

Ant worked well because it was extremely _explicit_: You had to say what you wanted. This gave it a lot of flexibility. Unlike some other tools, you aren't running in front of a train trying to get it to stop and let you on. It doesn't go anywhere or do anything until you say so. The cost was pretty much zero defaults and a good bit of boilerplate. I think a lot of people expected this from Gradle because the idea of "build as programming" seemed like it would give that stop-the-train-let-me-on-already ability. I don't know that it really worked out that way. Maven is all about running devs over, but it's faster than Gradle, which tries to start a daemon just like SBT. Anyhow... this bld thing looks interesting, thanks...