I’ve been thinking about 100% declarative Gradle builds for quite some time now. As of June 2020 Gradle offers not one but two different DSLs based on programming languages (Groovy and Kotlin) for defining the steps that the build should take to do its thing. For years developers were used to adding whatever code was “necessary” to make the build turn its gears, regardless of the consequences. In recent times the push has been to move those pieces of code into plugins, simplifying the build files themselves, and also promising less actual code in the build files. Yet, one can Read More