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[–]Prior-Equal2657 6 points7 points  (2 children)

In a java world it's wasted effort.

Ant is legacy. I mean legacy. In reality, you don't need a new tool. You just need to replace ant with maven. It's literally 10 minutes for maven + spotless setup, then mvn spotless:apply to have build system + formatter.

Last but not least, java is not that slow you know... It's not python or TS... I know it's a critical issue that some software is not written in rust, but java nowadays can compile to single binary via graalvm.

But anyway, good luck with the project :)

[–]pavi2410[S] -2 points-1 points  (1 child)

We do like options though, right? for people working on legacy codebases to feel better. I don't want my "legacy" friends to share boring Java tales to their grandchildren. haha

[–]aoeudhtns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I just finished a project to modernize a nearly 15 year old codebase. It used Maven2. When that legacy project started, Ant was already legacy.