[mike_hearn]

Not to defend Gradle too much, but Groovy is a superset of Java. So if you want, you can just use the regular Groovy dialect and then write Java in your build scripts, it should work.

This is not entirely a solution though, because Gradle's APIs are fairly complicated and change regularly.

[kaba0]

(Nitpick, but it’s just a “superficial” superset. The biggest difference is probably doing “multi-methods”, aka the runtime type of an argument deciding which method implementation to call vs java’s static overload resolution.)