Not sure how that’s relevant to the article.

But since you’ve started this topic, I gotta say I love Gradle and I think it’s the best build system out there (until you reach a certain (huge) scale - then look at Bazel). I learned it by reading the docs a few times and contributing to OSS projects, improving their build scripts and plugins. Feeling pretty confident with it now. I don’t get why it gets so much hate - as if people didn’t want to spend time to actually learn it. If Gradle gets this much hate, then CMake should get 100x more.

I’ve struggled with Gradle for years, and remember hating it because of how overly complex and developer-hostile it seemed. Today, I write Gradle plug-ins, mentor others who seem unhappy, and am generally pleased that Gradle exists and how it can significantly improve build times in some projects if wielded correctly.

Its learning curve and user-friendliness, however, are truly abysmal imho.