15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Gradle first-hand: 2 endorse it, 5 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Gradle is smarter about finding your available JDKs.”
endorse · production · EdwardDiego · 2023-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Then gradle wants to update. Then SDK. Then IDE again. It's never-ending cycle of updates.”
regret · personal · jmiskovic · 2019-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I might not love gradle, but it is still a big step up from ant.”
mixed · production · on_and_off · 2016-04-08 · source ↗ · wrong label?“At Addepar, we migrated from Gradle to buck, and our builds became less flaky and 2x-5x as fast.”
regret · production · dcposch · 2015-09-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“The frustrating thing was compatibility breaking, mostly associated with Gradle. Every second upgrade, I had to spend a while getting my project to build again.”
regret · production · V-2 · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“it's always a form of a gradle incompatibility”
regret · personal · Tekker · 2014-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started out with gradle and embedded jetty, and found no out-of-the-box support.”
regret · personal · sghill · 2013-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we migrated off maven a while back for gradle for java projects.”
neutral · production · aeroevan · 2025-02-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“For runs that need read/write locks on volumes (eg Gradle build cache) my recommendation after trial and error”
neutral · production · SOLAR_FIELDS · 2023-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've spent a lot of time rewriting Gradle projects to avoid cross configuration, allow configuration caching”
neutral · production · ohgodplsno · 2022-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Kotlin w/Gradle. Build + Deploy single command `gradle deployStage`.”
neutral · personal · jpgvm · 2021-10-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We had previously migrated from a set of disparate build tools (Gradle, Gulp etc) to Buck”
neutral · production · csdigi · 2020-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using Flutter to develop apps without Android Studio - just the flutter SDK + Android SDK + Gradle”
neutral · personal · stann · 2017-11-26 · 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?