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Gradle is designed to keep people who spend time getting good at it employed.

It’s a real embarrassment to our industry.

I never really understood the argument for configuring a build tool in a separate programming language, let alone in two separate languages. I have never once said “thank god I have regular language functionality here”, and more often said “what undocumented function do I need to call again?”

Makes me want XML and Maven back; at least my IDE can guide me based on the schema files it parsed.

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