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> Gradle [...] give you dependency resolution with one-line-one-dependency, versioning, automatic downloads, update checking and other useful features.

Not only automatic downloads, but also unwanted downloads courtesy of Groovy. See https://github.com/jaseg/ffi

> Many IDEs can create a Gradle project for you. Gradle avoids the custom dictionary and uses a much lighter weight syntax.

That "much lighter weight syntax" is actually all of Apache Groovy. It's grammar definition is far, far more complex than XML's.