This. And speed aside, Gradle embodies everything that is wrong with modern software development. A giant, opaque, idiosyncratic black box. I develop for Android (Java and Flutter) and it has become a sad pattern from Hell: Android Studio update mandates upgraded Gradle, which breaks previously the build in most weird ways, forcing one to trawl StackOverflow looking for proper incantations to do in the myriad of files it has created with the single purpose of building the damn app. Sometimes I wish, creating new build systems was outlawed some time after gmake or cmake...
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