Gradle is really a huge burden for me to get the app up and running and for someone who was only lightly interested into doing small changes one the fly, gradle was totally upsetting.
I think it kinda fits into tools that suit much large scale projects, while they fall short to address small scale projects.
And this small thing called Spring, maybe you heard about it? But yeah, other than that it is almost irrelevant, if you count Netflix, Adyen and thousands of other companies irrelevant.
Netflix and Adyen are indeed irrelevant in the context of Java consulting.
When Fuchsia finally happens, not even that.
What do you mean "usable with Maven"? They've migrated to Gradle because Maven wasn't cut for the task anymore.
> Netflix and Adyen are indeed irrelevant in the context of Java consulting.
Sorry, but products are far more credible to me than sweatshops that exist to milk other businesses.
Pivotal is always chasing the latest fad in Java community as means to attract developers, almost every JVM guest language and build system has at a given time had Spring first class support, then it was removed when it stopped being cool.
Sorry, but Netflix could be using Brainfuck and it wouldn't affect anything outside their building, without any relevant meanint to the actual quality of their product.
If anything it just proves that Netflix is able to deliver despite the tooling they happen to choose.