Gradle has always felt way too bloated and over-engineered to me, it makes project initialization times, even for simple projects way too long, it’s often not version cross-compatible, many subtle things change with each version so you have to put in a lot of effort if you want to stay up to date, and usually it’s simply an overkill, for most projects you don’t need to describe your build process using a scripting language.
Many modern languages/runtimes like Rust or Node.js have a very simple build system that can get you working on a project very fast and their functionality can always be extended to your needs. I think if Kotlin had an integrated build system where you could just type something like kotlin pkg init and get started with working on a project, it’d be very good for the adoption of the language.
Has there been any thought put into this?
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