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by krakatau1 2651 days ago
because every Maven project is more or less same while Gradle projects vary drastically...I don't know how anyone can tolerate Gradle and performance benefit is not that great...
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The performance benefit is huge.

I understand not wanting to learn another build tool, but I have no regrets where I've moved to gradle. It's so much faster on a project of any size it's stunning.

90% of maven projects don't do anything terribly complicated. Porting them to gradle leaves them uncomplicated and unexciting. I just wish there was a standard release mechanism. Poor as mavene-release is, at least everybody uses it and understands it.

> 90% of maven projects don't do anything terribly complicated. Porting them to gradle leaves them uncomplicated and unexciting.

They don't stay uncomplicated though. Someone puts a quick one-liner hack in the build definition to fix some trivial issue they were having, and it never gets removed, and years later it bites you. I don't trust myself to remember and understand arbitrary code that I put in a build definition, yet alone anyone else.