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Why hasn't gradle been adopted for C/C++ projects? (programming.dev)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know little about gradle and have only just started exploring it, so this is just a question out of curiosity.

It's supposedly a language agnostic dependency manager and builder, yet it seems to have only found its niche in Java. C/C++ projects could definitely do with dependency resolution...

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Gradle upgrades are dead simple… like yeah I get a bunch of the other criticisms of Gradle, but they mark things as deprecated two full major versions ahead and then slowly phase them out. Upgrades are a single command.

I haven’t really encountered the issues others are having and I’m guessing a lot of them occurred before Gradle’s switch to kotlin.

Edit: or the issues are actually from android build tool and not actually Gradle

[–] corsicanguppy 1 points 5 days ago

Upgrades are a single command.

That's a weird flex.

I've not used anything in 20 years that didn't upgrade with a single command -- in a cron file because it's been so well-proved and has such a painless back out that you don't fear the so-far-2-in-27-years cases where you need to use that backout.

"Upgrades are a single command" is so "I can tie my shoes" basic that I'm embarrassed for those who cannot.