Build managers

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 2015-02-04 at 14:20 +0000, Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> […]
>  From my little experience with Gradle as part of Android Studio,
> be prepared for increased build times and CPU load vs Ant.

I am just about to start doing things with Android now I can use 
Kotlin and Groovy to program the applications (*). I had assumed, 
because Android Studio is really IntelliJ IDEA, that people would use 
the build in project creation to make an IDEA project form the Gradle 
file. Any lengthy compilation of Android Studio over the old Eclipse 
thing should be an Eclipse vs IntelliJ IDEA thing, not a Groovy/Gradle 
thing. On the other hand if you use the Gradle build always then I can 
imagine slow start up the first time since it has to start the Gradle 
server.

(*) I find Java 6 an appalling language. Android is getting some Java 
7, but I want Java 8 and beyind, now. Kotlin and (static) Groovy 
provide this.
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