ah yes… being incompatible crap that can't use system installed versions because it breakes everything on each release and requires you to fix your build on particular version and stick to it… and install it each time is such a brilliant idea!

Especially in the current day and age, when something constantly breaks (aws, cloudflare…)

all hail fucking #gradle !

And yet #maven #mvn nicely trots along, upgrading in the background and I don't even have to think if it updated or not (save for the upcomming #maven 4 release, but it's like "one in a generation" kind of thing…)

#rant

ah yes… being incompatible crap that can't use system installed versions because it breakes everything on each release and requires you to fix your build on particular version and stick to it… and install it each time is such a brilliant idea!

Especially in the current day and age, when something constantly breaks (aws, cloudflare…)

all hail fucking #gradle !

And yet #maven #mvn nicely trots along, upgrading in the background and I don't even have to think if it updated or not (save for the upcomming #maven 4 release, but it's like "one in a generation" kind of thing…)

#rant

For the last two years, we've been working on a new build tool for #Java, called #bld. It has now been added as one of the standard options to generate snippets in #Maven Central, the most popular repository of Java packages. Yay! 🥳

More information about bld: https://rife2.com/bld

For the last two years, we've been working on a new build tool for #Java, called #bld. It has now been added as one of the standard options to generate snippets in #Maven Central, the most popular repository of Java packages. Yay! 🥳

More information about bld: https://rife2.com/bld

Announcing new-java-project… My Maven / Java best practices that helped me over the last couple of years and that I don't want to copy & paste anymore distilled into a Maven archetype:

https://codeberg.org/michael-simons/new-java-project

#Java #Maven #Archetype