[sievebrain]

A build.gradle file that lists a few dependencies is like maybe 7 or 8 lines of code, which can almost all be cargo culted. You only need to start consulting the Gradle manual once you start doing things like defining custom build tasks or wanting to use custom plugins.

Go's toolchain doesn't even bother with versioning. That's like the opposite of batteries-included, forced-best-practices. But of course it will seem simpler than a tool that does handle these basic things.

If you want the benefits of Java with a lighter syntax then look at Kotlin.

[vorg]

> A build.gradle file that lists a few dependencies is like maybe 7 or 8 lines of code, which can almost all be cargo culted

...and that code is written in Apache Groovy. Strange why they'd bundle a Turing-complete scripting language for their build file DSL when it's only 7 or 8 lines long.