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Yeah. I think it is tempting to overload Gradle however. It runs bash and can build oci images and call other languages, which is fine in theory, but in practice it turns out to be quite limiting and full of complex pitfalls. The best setups I’ve worked with let other tools build non JVM stuff and leave Gradle to compile and test the JVM stuff only, because that is what it is good at.


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