[commandlinefan]

Not really - or, at least, not that simply. When my last organization moved to Gradle, and we had a Gradle ninja go in and migrate all of our build scripts to hundreds of lines of Gradle scripts, I thought the same thing. So I spent a month on-and-off studying and learning base Groovy (fending off coworkers who would pass by my desk and ask, "what are you doing?" "Learning Groovy" "Why are you learning groovy?" "So I can use Gradle" "Why do you have to learn Groovy to use Gradle, Gradle Ninja already did it for you"). I finally got to where I was, if not an expert, at least comfortable with core Groovy. But even then, there was a lot more to Gradle than just "a build script written in Groovy" - there's another learning curve to climb once you've learned Groovy.