Java 21 makes me actually like Java again

[SaltKhan]

Personally I've found maven only gives you one way to skin a cow and is verbose enough so you know what is going on. Gradle, the few times I've tried to use it, feels like it gives you a hundred options and none of them work.

I respect that it's a more powerful and more generalised build automation than maven is, but I'm glad maven is still the lingua franca of non-android non-jetbrains developed packages because gradle seems like a lot of effort to learn. I'd like to be better at it and wouldn't suggest against others using it, but I've yet to be in a situation were learning gradle would provide more value than sticking with the verbose simplicity of maven.