[throwaway189262]

I have used both and like maven better. I do not like the idea of using a turing complete language to define your builds. Every Gradle project I worked on eventually devolved into build code insanity.

Give me any maven project and I can figure out how to build it and modify dependencies and stuff within minutes.

With Gradle, it can be an hour of messing with code if the project maintainers got creative.

I've never had a project that maven, with it's mostly fixed build setup, couldn't handle. Having a turing complete build script is like turing complete cooking recipes. Pointless and definitely going to create more problems than it solves