[maccard]

Pretty much every golang project I've ever touched builds with `go build`. Most that have makefiles just call `go build`, and the makefile is more for building docker containers, or doing infra-related things. If a project is in go, 98% of the time `git clone XXX && cd XXX && go build` will work.

That is absolutely not the case with C, C++, Java, python.

> So gradle's issue, not Java's. See above.

The issue exists with maven too, but _not_ with go build, which is OP's point.

[adrianmsmith]

> If a project is in go, 98% of the time `git clone XXX && cd XXX && go build` will work.

I can’t speak for the other languages but I reckon this is the case for Java projects. Git clone, cd XXX, mvn clean package.

Potentially messing about with whether you have Java 8, 11 or 17 installed which saddens me to mention. But if you are into Java, you have them all installed already, and just need to make sure the right one is activated when you do the above steps.