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Love It or Hate It, Gradle Reaches Version 7.0

 Gradle is a tool that always stirs arguments among developers. Let's see what version 7 brings and breaks.

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I first encountered Gradle when developing on Android and my first impression was that it wasn't the most friendly of tools; cryptic syntax, contradictory terms (see compile versus implementation) and peculiar blocks of elements.

The Groovy to Kotlin DSL jump is another testament to the tool's Android roots and as the platform evolved so has Gradle. After Android I've used Gradle in the all-Maven world of Spring Boot world and it really felt at odds, making my life miserable at times as I juggled the syntax, the plugins and the dependencies.

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