Gradle and Maven are both a million times better than whatever constantly changing collection of random stuff you have to use to build a contemporary node project.
Nah, Gradle is a fucking mess no matter what. If you don't absolutely understand the gradle life cycle, how to avoid task configuration, keeping everything lazy, avoid cross configuration, understand that buildSrc is shit, gradle will be hell.
Gradle feels to me like trying to set up a webpack project. Loads of magic configuration no one dares to touch after it happens to somewhat work correctly.
The only problem I find is the API updates between major versions. Still, I’m never going back to Maven. Love Gradle.
Building embedded server apps, many sub projects, single Java/Kotlin codebase.
Once you apply that same strategy to Maven, it actually tends to beat Gradle in performance too. See Maven Daemon: https://github.com/apache/maven-mvnd
Mvnd seems somewhat recent compared to Gradle’s daemon feature. Are there any measurements that confirm this statement? I don’t find any in the repo?
But I do agree that the dsl is quite cryptic.
Granted if you are talking frontend browser code then sure webpack, but that tool has been around and stable for many years now.
Added bonus too is browser adoption is way better than ever so you don't really need a transpile either, typescript being the exception.
I'd take that build system over Java's dog slow build systems any day. Just a shame about the JS ecosystem itself. Too many badly written libraries not written in Typescript (inexcusable these days) with a gazillion dependencies.
Java literally compiles as fast as it gets, while npm chews through the same files multiple passes, and goddamn barely does anything yet takes eons of time.
Loving FP and admiring `fp-ts`'s work, I can't help but think our communities would be better off doing FP in FP languages instead of writing unergonomic and idiomatic code to much of the splintered TypeScript community. Yet, we'll writing things this way because it feels like the correct way to do software, meanwhile a bootcamper would find it incomprehensible; this same person would find an FP language more approachable because there's only one way to code it.