Comment by dcminter

Can't speak for everyone, but I think a substantial part of the shift from Maven to Gradle was the ability to write build scripts: you didn't need to write a plugin. I'm hoping that Maven (and Gradle) can take advantage of JEPs 458 and 512 to allow people to write build scripts for that Java projects in Java.

- https://openjdk.org/jeps/458

- https://openjdk.org/jeps/512

I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of maven, but it is absolutely one of the best build/dependency tools I’ve ever used despite its warts.

So many things, even if they came much later, are somehow much worse.