LLMs take the whole argument away. Yes, maven/gradle/sbt suck to work with. But now you can just generate it.
replyI've been using maven for 20+ years, gradle for 10? ant for 5 before that. sbt for 15. I've written custom plugins for all of them. I know them quite well, unfortunately.
replyI use LLMs to maintain them now. I keep the build files simple. It was an inconvenience before, but a trifle now.
Lets look at Java in modern day.
reply* Most mature Java project has moved to Kotlin.
* The standard build system uses gradle, which is either groovy or kotlin, which gets compiled to java which then compiles java.
* Log4shell, amongst other vulnerabilities.
* Super slow to adopt features like async execution
* Standard repo usage is terrible.
There is no point in using Java anymore. I don't agree that Rust is a replacement, but between Python, Node, and C/C++ extensions to those, you can do everything you need.