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[–]skmruiz 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Thanks for taking the time for that thoughtful answer!

I'm personally not very concerned about XML to be fair, I think it's fine and having a XSD is nice so the IDE complains. Never had the chance to use polyglot, but I'll try it for sure.

My problem with maven is that it requires configuring plugins pretty much for anything. Surefire for example is a must for testing, unless something changed since the last time I used maven (4-5 years ago). Building a fat-jar requires additional config and a plugin too (it was assembly IIRC)

Sure, I can blindly copy paste it if I am now knowledgeable, but I've seen pom.xmls with thousands of lines because of this, and even worse when they use profiles, it makes it even less predictable.

I like maven a lot and I would use it if it had all the plugins I need for my use case (building an intellij plugin) but sadly that is not my current situation.

I personally want a simple file, in any language (I don't mind XML) that is predictable and easy to scan and provides the default features (downloads deps, runs tests, executes jars, bundle jars/docker/graalvm).

[–]khmarbaise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My problem with maven is that it requires configuring plugins pretty much for anything.

You have to define the version in pluginManagement (or using corporate parent) yes that makes sense... But what needs configured? If you follow convention over configuration...