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Gradle and Bazel are absolutely general purpose build tools that are very widely used in industry.

As a smaller contender, my personal favorite is the Mill build tool (written in Scala), that is basically what a build tool should be, it’s as close to a theoretical perfect as possible. I really advise reading the blog post by its author Li Haoyi: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SoWhatsSoSpecialAboutTheMillSca...



Yeah right, I'll install a whole fucking JRE just to build some project. No thanks.


There is not even a JRE anymore - at least read some stuff from this decade before you criticize something so shallowly.


Manure by any other name smells just as bad.




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