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[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 16:30:22 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> While I've no doubt the functionality here is good, I think 
> following the Ant colony down the XML branch will ultimately be 
> a pest that's hard to control.
>
> In my current job, we have ant scripts to install our dev 
> builds that is 10k+ lines long! And noone knows all of it. A 
> single line change gives me nightmares!! It started off nice 
> and small, but grew to a monster.
>
> We're now moving towards gradle as we can control the install 
> much better with a fully fledged programming environment. 
> Should be much easier read too.

Was it the type system, which gave you troubles? Groovy is said 
to be a dynamic language, which can be worse in managing 10kloc 
projects.