Why hasn't gradle been adopted for C/C++ projects? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by onlinepersona@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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I know little about gradle and have only just started exploring it, so this is just a question out of curiosity.

It's supposedly a language agnostic dependency manager and builder, yet it seems to have only found its niche in Java. C/C++ projects could definitely do with dependency resolution...

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[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

no please don't. Whenever I try to install something old and I realise it's written in java I just give up after days of trying or end up with like 4 java versions installed and different dependencies need different versions.

I see gradle written while doing so, thus I associate it with HELL.

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