[pjmlp]

Gradle is the only thing holding Groovy alive, beyond maintenance projects.

I remember attending JSF Days in 2009 and how we would be all writing Groovy JEE Beans in the near future, show in different ways across a few sessions, and here we are.

[vorg]

... and Android Studio could be the only thing keeping Gradle alive, beyond 20-liner build scripts. When Google finally releases Fuchsia, it will virtually replace Android's market share within 2-3 yrs. Because Flutter uses Dart for building apps, it'll probably go with Dart for specifying build scripts as well. Although one of the Apache Groovy PMC is probably busy politicking inside Google to get them to use Gradle for Flutter, hopefully that team won't repeat Android's mistake. Otherwise the 3rd-party app market for Fuchsia will be stillborn.

[pjmlp]

Yep, if it wasn't for Google having the silly idea of adopting Gradle, I would never bothered to learn it.

I don't suffer from XML allergy and am pretty fine with Maven in what concerns Maven projects.

Actually I was pretty happy with Eclipse + Ant + ndk-build as well.

To this day the NDK already went through a couple of Gradle build variations and it still doesn't support NDK libraries across NDK projects, as AAR only support binary libs for Java apps.

I follow Fuchsia with attention, but it might end up just as Brillo.