Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I've had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.
IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.
As someone who wants to use Kotlin or Scala, is there another way to get around these two? Coming from .NET or NPM I found both of these to be terrible.
Gradle is absolute rubbish, definitely the worst experience I've had with a build system. But Maven is also rubbish.
IMO a CLI should be the primary way of interacting with the build system (see e.g. Go, Rust, JS with NPM or Yarn, Python with Poetry) and manually editing the build file should be reserved for edge cases and extensions.
As someone who wants to use Kotlin or Scala, is there another way to get around these two? Coming from .NET or NPM I found both of these to be terrible.
The "default" build tool for Scala is sbt.
There is Mill https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/mill
Which offers a nicer experience than the default Scala build tool: https://www.scala-sbt.org/
I personally like sbt a lot, but I've been told mill is more approachable.