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Gradle is such a piece of shit, sad it became the default for Spring Boot. Maven sucks too but at least its fast.

I think it's the difference between getting stabbed and shot. Not a lot of love for either. But I can work with both and gradle seems less hassle these days. Especially if you are doing Kotlin.

I wrote an Android app. Around 100000 lines of Pascal (+50% more in dependencies) and 10000 lines of Kotlin.

It takes four times 10 seconds to compile the Pascal code to multiple platforms and like 4 minutes to run gradle and compile the Kotlin code.

I do not know why it would be so slow

I love waiting for the "Daemon" to start and twiddle my thumbs for 10 seconds before anything happens, all the while sacrificing 500MB of memory.

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