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Hey! Core maintainer here.

I see a lot of comments are basically saying our project is obsolete or sucks. That does not stop us from working on Grunt though.

We are still seeing record download numbers, even with the 2 year old releases. This is why we felt it was important to keep releasing this software and supporting developers.

For those who support and use Grunt - huge thank you! Pick up your free open-source copy made by volunteers on npm.

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Thank you for your hard work! Don't listen to the haters. A lot of hackernews seems to be hipsters who dislike anything that's not the latest, most obscure technology to be using.

Grunt is solid, and does a great job at helping front end devs do their work. For people just getting into using a task runner, there are a lot of tutorials and S/O questions out there to help them learn as well.

Thank you for making my life as a developer so much better.

I did not know about the "hate" before visiting this thread... and I don't get it and now feel a bit sad reading all this. I was using Makefiles, npm commands and custom scripts for quite a while, and they were a pain to maintain! With Grunt I can just throw in a couple of plugins and I'm good to go! I'm using it for more than just building my apps.. I do all configuration and generation of new source-files etc with it, and it is awesome.

Started using Grunt 2 years ago, still doing it: simple CLI, neat documentation, lot of plugins. Thank you for working on it, I don't know what are the current trends but Grunt is still doing its job perfectly for what I'm working on so I'll continue to use it.

Thank you so much for your work and dedication. Don't listen to the haters, Grunt is a fantastic tool <3

If I were to sum up the number of seconds your work saved (and still saves) me, I'd get an integer overflow.

May whatever supernatural entities you believe in be with you, man. I deeply, deeply thank you for your work.

Thanks a lot for your hard work and keeping the project stable. The Infor CRM mobile team added grunt to our project back in July of 2013. I have probably written about a dozen plugins and custom tasks internally. The plugin API docs are a great resource. I love the configuration first approach with the ability to fall back to code if needed. It has really treated us well.

I also gave a presentation at our partner conference a year and a half ago on using grunt for development. Keep up the great work!

Keep doing what you're doing - competition is a good thing.

Thanks for your hard work. I used your project for a little while and it was very helpful.

Congrats on the release! Grunt has saved me tons of time over the years. One of the things I admire about Grunt is the docs. They are well organized and clear.

Well done, been using Grunt since end of 2012

I don't get node and npm (although I was good with JS), but you seem to be cool.

Noted. : )

Edit: again, now that we have a bunch of people capable of understanding trendy JS here: Care to share a link to somewhere I can learn?

Here: http://blog.keithcirkel.co.uk/how-to-use-npm-as-a-build-tool...

I don't hate grunt, I used to love it and used it for all my projects. And then I started using gulp.

But after reading this article I just use npm script 99% of the time. I don't know if it is better over all, I just prefer it over grunt/gulp.

Thank you so much! I appreciate all the work you've put into Grunt even though I personally prefer Webpack, configuration, HotModuleReloading and I've been able to make it work with webcomponents and reactjs. At work we use Grunt so maybe this will help me at work but I am actively trying to convince my team to switch to Webpack.

don't listen to the haters, without grunt gulp would've never been possible. I still use grunt the majority of my legacy projects, and I appreciate grunts maintainability

just started using grunt for my django project. I can't even imagine going back to using something else.

Great work Grunt team, keep it up!

I don't personally use Grunt, but your attitude is highly commendable.

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