7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Apache Ant first-hand: 2 endorse it, 1 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“We replaced ant with gradle when we switched to Android studio.”
regret · production · on_and_off · 2016-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I like that Ant is used for the build because it gives me a head start”
endorse · production · kls · 2010-10-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we use Ant scripts to do the build work. It makes updating our servers pretty straight forward.”
endorse · production · iamjpg · 2010-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Our build was done with Ant. There was no test phase.”
neutral · production · jillesvangurp · 2026-09-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use ant with a lib-folder - worked on maven in my spare time - nobody cares.”
neutral · production · nisa · 2020-12-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we used shell script to build, moved to Ant, moved to Ant + Ivy, and slowly moving to Maven”
neutral · production · edwinnathaniel · 2014-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?“is the reason I know maven, ant, chef AND puppet, Jenkins, and gradle as well as I do.”
neutral · production · yajoe · 2013-09-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?