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> I'd rather have declarative builds like Ant Is that a typo? I'd say Ant is the opposite of declarative.
by tieTYT 12y ago
> I'd rather have declarative builds like Ant
Is that a typo? I'd say Ant is the opposite of declarative.
- twic 12y agoIt's interesting. Ant is a somewhat constrained imperative language. Gradle is a highly constrained declarative language built on top of, and with an escape hatch to, a completely unconstrained imperative language. If you stay within the bounds of that the Gradle DSL can do, rather than throwing Groovy around (which is possible - i write a lot of Gradle, and very rarely write raw Groovy), then Gradle is rather nice and easy to reason about. But if you don't, well, you're going to have a bad time.