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Re:Java Is Underhyped by stepbeek on Friday April 16, 2021 @10:41AM (#26834453)
The complexity of maven is well understood and battle tested. The complexity of a custom build is not. In my opinion it is of a far more concerning sort of complexity.
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Re:Java Is Underhyped by fian on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:01AM (#26834736)
It's an Ant build file - nothing complex at all. If you no or few dependencies and are comfortable managing them manually, Ant is fine.

Non-networked applications don't tend to need to be so paranoid about keeping up to date with the latest versions of dependencies.

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Re:Java Is Underhyped by stepbeek on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:31AM (#26861991)
We're probably optimizing for different things. I'm normally optimizing for easy onboarding of someone new. If this is a personal project with few dependencies then ant is probably good enough.
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