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Re:Gradle Still Sucks by re-thc on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @04:15AM (#35710789)
> That said, to be honest it's still very confusing and I still don't understand how the hell Groovy works with it's looks-declarative-but-really-isn't code style.

The now default Kotlin syntax helps somewhat.

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Re:Gradle Still Sucks by brabel on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @07:47AM (#35712182)
How?? It's exactly the same as the Groovy syntax in almost every way, specially the nested blocks which makes Groovy look declarative and that Kotlin inherited from Groovy.
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Re:Gradle Still Sucks by re-thc on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @08:00AM (#35712306)
Better IDE autocomplete.
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