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The Gradle Blog
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The Gradle Blog is the company blog at blog.gradle.org, writing about programming and systems. Since 2017, 25 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Kotlin Meets Gradle”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the Gradle blog as the reference for Gradle features and changes, such as Kotlin DSL, source dependencies, toolchains and repository shutdowns like jcenter. Comments cite it without judging it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Gradle Blog
Most-linked posts?
- Kotlin Meets Gradle4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2017-01-24
- First Look at Declarative Gradle3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-07-24
- The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using Jj2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-06
What Hacker News says?
I am sympathetic. Declarative programming is _conceptually_ pure. I find in practice, it always makes the core hard things it intends easy and all other trivial matters a torture exercise (see XSLT.) So I can see why you'd reject a goofball imperative programming language like Ant made from XML. I also have had 'sharp edges' experiences with the Gradle Daemon, which struggled to deliver on the build acceleration pro…
Comment linking /declarative-gradle-first-eap
on “Boring tech is mature, not old”Submitted Gradle vs. Bazel for JVM Projects as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGradle files are less verbose than the equivalent Maven pom.xml but Gradle tends to have other issues like: complex builds that are hard to maintain, not running on the latest JVM version without some wait time, and constantly breaking because Gradle makes breaking changes every release. I'm hoping the declarative Gradle experiment [0] helps with this. Additionally if XML isn't your thing Maven is making a push for…
Comment linking /declarative-gradle-first-eap
on “GraalPy – A high-performance embeddable Python 3 runtime for Java”Submitted The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using Jj as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> How about java projects? How can I add a dependency to a project I’m building without it being published to a maven repo, for instance? You can use Gradle, which supports source repositories, instead of Maven: https://blog.gradle.org/introducing-source-dependencies
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on “The GitHub registry public beta is live”Submitted Gradle Is Javamaxxing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionGradle, granted they're fixing it. https://blog.gradle.org/decommissioning-http
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on “Still Why No HTTPS?”Submitted GitHub Actions for Gradle v6: What's Changing and Why as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.gradle.org/introducing-incremental-build-suppor...
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on “Why I Moved Back from Gradle to Maven”Submitted First Look at Declarative Gradle as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSince Java interop was a #1 priority w/ Kotlin, it has the same library support that Java does. Almost all of the major libraries just work. Lately bigger players have started to take notice: https://spring.io/blog/2017/01/04/introducing-kotlin-support... https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle I'm still not sure where it will end up, but things look pretty good right now. But wrt Type Erasure, Kotlin doesn't co…
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on “Java Is Unsound: The Industry Perspective”Submitted Declarative Gradle as a story · 2 points
HN discussion2016, https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle
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on “Starlark Programming Language”Submitted Verifying Gradle Wrappers with GitHub Actions as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Gradle requires me to use a totally different programming language just to write configuration There's an alternative to using Apache Groovy for writing Gradle config scripts: https://blog.gradle.org/kotlin-meets-gradle . If you also use Kotlin instead of Java for your software on the JVM then you can stick to one language for everything.
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on “From Java to Go, and Back Again (2016)”Submitted Introducing the new C++ plugins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://blog.gradle.org/gradle-vs-bazel-jvm#:~:text=Both%20G... .
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on “Why Move from Gradle to Maven”Submitted State of Gradle Java 9 Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you're using Gradle + jcenter repository, it will fail. I ran into this when building a Flutter mobile app, relying on Gradle to fetch dependencies. There is more information here: https://blog.gradle.org/jcenter-shutdown I was able to find all the dependencies I needed on the Maven Central repository, so it was a quick fix in my case.
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on “Bintray Is Down”Submitted The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using Jj as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSee also Gradle toolchains ( https://www.jvt.me/posts/2021/06/09/gradle-toolchain/ / https://blog.gradle.org/java-toolchains )
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on “Java 20 and IntelliJ Idea”Submitted Kotlin DSL Is Now the Default for New Gradle Builds as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gradle Plugin Portal potential data exposure as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Stop rerunning your tests as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kotlin Meets Gradle as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Blazing Fast Android Builds as a story · 1 points
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