[bigstrat2003]

IMO Jenkins works great and the hate is vastly overblown. So... I would say Jenkins is the modern alternative to Jenkins, personally.

[wharvle]

Groovy is god-awful though.

Jenkins is... fine, basically, if you can get away with almost never having to touch Groovy.

[QuiDortDine]

A good Groovy script limits itself to running scripts in better languages.

[roastedfunction]

This is the way. Groovy isn’t that bad but the CPS interpreter & sandboxing is god awful to develop on and troubleshoot.

[joelwilliamson]

Groovy is a far better scripting language than YAML, which seems to be the choice of many other NYPD systems.

[doubled112]

Agreed. Jenkins is one of those things where the biggest strength and biggest weakness is that it will do anything you want.

You, yourself, need to make good choices. Jenkins isn't going to stop you from making poor ones. Reminds me of Jira in that sense.